OUR UNION
An evening came floating by
Into my life
Not to lull me to sleep
Instead to add
Usher looming storm into my sunlit life
So far I had slept through evening into the night
Dreaming my way to joy into morning light
Those butterfly days of a playful child were days into oblivion
Days lost in time
That night I had tried to cross the night sea
Merely by standing and sitting and watching
Staring at wave after wave splash to break upon me
That was the night
The first night of union
Our union
Man and woman
He and me
Draped in Brocade Banarasi sari
My mother had woven for me for the auspicious night of union
Yarn of gold woven into pink sky
Studded in twinkling diamonds
Plucked from her night sky
She foresaw her daughter shine like the fairy
Land upon earth from heavenly sky
I was decked up in gold ornaments of glory
In ornamental grandeur from head to toe
In ant