A GLIMPSE OF ETERNITY

Eternity,
My heart yearns for a glimpse!
In my mind’s screen a subtle glow.
Broken shadows dance in the flicker,
Assume intelligible forms of bright hues.
The earth, deforested and despoiled,
An empty shell. The horned moon
A blanched rib lying in a cemetery.
The sun bleeds pale at dusk and dawn.
The stars burn down, Milkyway drains

But,
I perceive beyond the limit
Of the limitless cosmos
A bright halo of colours infinite
Engraved with multitudinous designs
But ever changing
With kaleidoscopic unpredictability:

Thiruvananthapuram
28.6.1989

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