How swift the night passes
And day shoots in;
Must our embrace end,
Agony begin?
How in the moonlight
In your strong arms
Had I lost all thought!
Now dark day storms.
How your lips touched mine
To sweet rapture,
My tangled tresses, soft bosom
Recall and stir.
How cruel it is to part
And to wait, o wait;
Let the sun be eclisped
With love’s sad hate!
Background:
Love is beyond all rules and laws. In fact, it is law unto itself. It evokes every shade of emotion in the heart it smites. Having been love-smitten, I have tried to capture its many contours.
I have called these poems “The Fire of Love” in the sense that love, like fire, is all-consuming and all-purifying. The longing heart holds the inferno of a thousand suns. The cool shower of the sweetheart’s sight soothes the searing soul. I can vouch for it.
Every lover is Krishna and every beloved is Radha. The legend of their love is experienced by all that have felt Love’s electrifying touch. I share the opinion that ‘Krishna and Radha symbolize the Embrace of Yin and Yang, the Unification of Masculine and Feminine energies, the merging of Humanity and the Divine. When one transcends and awakens to the Truth, one sees that we are all united with the universe and that we are never alone. When our energies balance, we manifest our own reality. That is the essence of Krishna and Radha, the Divine Embrace’.
The mention of bites and fingernail marks is found in many a poem. They are considered signs of passion in Indian tradition. They express the emotive power of the union between the lover and the beloved. It must be mentioned here that ‘the associations are not sadistic, but more like hickeys in American tradition or love bites in the British tradition’
Komarraju Venkata Vinay
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