Meenakshi--the deity with the eyes of a fish

Meenakshi

Fishes are said to feed their offspring through their eyes. And, I just do'nt seem to grow up, silly everytime.....

Meenakshi

I find you still

At peace,like a photograph

Or a memory, framed forever with newness

That feeling of a First

First touch,first loss,first tinge of blush

That feeling of new-ness.

Your Piscean, Aiyangar eyes

Calm with centuries of wisdom

Betray a ripple now

Someone must have mentioned Bertrand Russel

Or some retard must be taking vigorous notes,minting money

The ripple spreads now

Like the mad race of life,like teenage hormones

Brimming on the large lakes of your eyes

Stretching the crescent of the lips.

You will draw the leash now

It's too early for full-moon
"I'm not the Konkan coast"-you'll say
"Caressed and tormented alike by promiscuous waves"

Yours is not beauty ephemeral

Nor seed of wars,pain and misfortune

You've sustained life for centuries now

The Well of Zamzam, the wealth of the Ocean

You're mine, my son's and every man's on earth

Yet greed holds no stake, you are beyond possession

So your smile is put on a leash now

All urges to express restrained

However much the poet may plead

Or peculiar evenings with their irresistible clouds beckon

However much the woman inside may burn

The smile must be restrained lest the World goes for a churn

Because you protect

Because you don't want another Pokhran,Nagasaki or Amrit-Manthan
So the poet shall wait till the world grows up

And continue to set ripples on the lake of memories

Till you pull memories,him and the lake

Into the origin that is you....