By Pramod Rastogi
My heart is in upheaval.
I long for you to knock at my door,
To give me the joy to be your host.
I have longed for this day,
To have you with me and for me alone.
I have waited so long for the footsteps of spring.
The road map of our luminous past,
By which our relationship passed,
Is still as painful to recollect as it is to relive,
Still as crushed by your psyche in distress.
Hardly were you ever in your full senses.
You had to vanquish your curses to be here.
Yet, when I saw you in your lonely silence,
I shed all my misgivings,
And welcomed you in my heart.
I will love you and seek nothing in return.
Vanishing images of our lovely past
Will be cherished in the tomb of our love.
Pramod Rastogi is an Emeritus Professor at the EPFL, Switzerland. He is a poet, academician, researcher, author of nine scientific books, and a former Editor-in-chief (1999-2019) of the international scientific journal Optics and Lasers in Engineering. He has published over ninety poems in international literary journals.
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