When I look upon you
Language abandons all sense
Logic deserts its post
Words fail me
I am beguiled
When I look upon you
Mind and matter dissolve to nothingness
My being peruses the realms of pre-existence
Seeking, searching for our untenable bond
Were you to ask, I would retell
I was born the day you arrived
My book of existence abundant with blank pages afore
And unwritten thereafter
Now you’ve begun to sleep in my eyes
As this invisible thread from my wrist to yours
Spans the line of the equator
Telling the story of infinity
Measuring time unmeasured
When I look into your fathomless eyes
My soul sinks into your depths
Disappearing in reflections
I am baptised
Holy
Mystic
A sweet reunion
I await patiently
For your core to shake
And your love to wake
And meet me in those deep waters
To teach me to therein,
To grieve
As my love’s intensity today
Denotes my grief’s intensity tomorrow
My retreat from you stabs me a hundred times
Yet I fear moreso the day it will be painful
To not be stabbed
Linguists and grammarians fall mute
Pages repel ink
As all intellect falls prey to loves glory
Silence to be the only language
Yet despite the universe conspiring
To bring me right to you
You remain aslumber
Unfamiliar to such tongues
Ⓒ May 2017 Dr. Taslima Begum, United Kingdom
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