“I am coming back” your whispers in the silence of the night purified
my heart, cleansed my soul, and created a profound storm in my breast. Those
words sang the melodies of Divine Love that I had been craving for ages.
Till this night, I had talked about voyagers of path and their
delight of union, but now here I was utterly mute after your words had warmed
my soul and your love had wrapped me in its sacred robe.
You left after having turned my entire existence to a living
corpse. And I, in a life that was deeper than death, turned to my shivering
Soul searching for Love’s ways and course, I turned to my aching heart begging
for Love’s essence and core.
The fire that you had kindled in my chest was consuming me in
its flames and melting me in its desires. I was feeling your invisible lips, in
these hours of solitude and silence, touching my restless soul. I was feeling
your unseen hands caressing me and filling me with sweetness of pleasure and
bitterness of pain.
While waiting for you to return, I was succumbing to a secret
power that was both slaying my being and soothing my heart. Was this the “Love”
I had been searching for that was now uncovering its hidden mysteries,
concealed for eternities? Was this the
wakefulness that was unrevealing its veiled secrecies, cloaked in the skies for
perpetuities?
I was sacredly roused after you had brushed your fingertips on
my trembling lips. I had suddenly crossed the seas, climbed the mountains,
travelled the deserts, and walked the valleys. I was now ready to voyage the
end of the land to breathe the sameness of your breath, to feel the evenness of
your touch, and to hear the levelness of your voice. I was now ready to leave
the mortal being and burn in the sacred smoke to merge with the GOD of Love.
The noise of the silence was quilting the night, the beating
of my chest was filling the skies, and I was waiting for you to extinguish my
fire of longing. I stood there waiting for you like a devotee standing at the
gates of temple waiting for the Divine permission.
The stillness was finally over and the moment to enter the
temple had come. You lifted me to your chest and held me close to your beats.
Love consumed my heart in its sacred blaze and I bowed down in the earnest
submission. Your look on my face was like a magic cup of wine quenching the
enduring thirst of my eyes.
You caressed my hair and touched my fingertips. My tears
disclosed the secrets of my heart, my soul stood naked before the silence of
your eyes and for the first time I was celebrating the Divine awareness.
You held my face, touched my heart, and hummed the melody of
God. I elevated my soul and embraced yours to offer myself to heavenly flames.
You recited the passionate verses in my ears and chanted the
prayers of union. I had lived in lament and moaned forever, but tonight, in
this silence of night, you had murmured those whispers and made me “Divine” and
now the essence of Love was fully awake in me and I had performed the holy
ablution. I had finally found the divine permission in your trance-full eyes
Walking on the path of heart, I was now ready to enter the
temple.