Supine, Looking at the Sky
Supine, Looking at the Sky
Back from two days` intensive care
After an open heart surgery,
In a hospital bed I fare
Seeking the Lord`s sublime mercy,
Supine, looking at the grey sky
Through a window pane just nearby,
In the languid silence of the night
With a half-moon lighting the sky,
Myriads of stars shining bright
My eyes are riveted up high
Praying the Lord, my protector,
To spare me a dreadful spectre.
My thoughts ascend to heaven
Where many noble souls do rest
And deep down my mind I reckon
For me to be divinely blest,
To the Lord I need make a plea
To attain a heavenly lea.
Now the chest seemed to burst with pains
And the heart to be blown apart;
Prayers of my spouse were in vain:
Worn out with woe, pulse of my heart
Wavered and then dropped to a low
As the winds whispered in a flow.
In the dim darkness of the night,
With pearly drops dripping from eyes
My spouse called out for help upright
To alleviate my painful sighs;
With some pills I was lulled to rest
As in my state I could n`t protest.
I closed my eyes to the surrounds
And in silence hummed the Lord`s name
For hours and hours around,
With my inner eyes set on His fame,
The moon, stars and the galaxy
Under His sole supremacy.
The winds seemed to wrap in their wings
My prayers, my pains and my woes,
Haul them to the sky with their strings
And share with the Lord my sorrow
As signs of solidarity,
As tokens of fraternity.
When I lightly opened my eyes
Through the spick and span window panes
I could again gaze at the sky,
Now retiring and on the wane
With glimmers of the orb of day
Shooting at the sky with its ray.
With the pains slightly ebbing down,
From the very depth of my heart
I thanked the Lord without a frown
For showering grace on His part
That afresh I`d stare at the sky
Ere for good I would bid goodbye.
Now my eyes shy of sun at morn
And stunned by the shine of the sky
Quite wished the curtains to be drawn
That my soul could anew fly high,
My body and mind rest again
And my ears greet the winds` refrain.
Copyright ©
Krishnanand Guptar
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