locked in your embrace
every moment
every breath
together
we walk
you
my lover
that waits to strike me
to betray me
to consume me
at any moment
and have done so
forever
and yet
i cannot let you go
for
i am
because you are
i breathe
because you allow me to
i do
because
the fear of you
provokes me to
i am alive
because I feel your embrace
yet
like a cobra
one day u will strike me
though i dance with joy
in the thought
that you will
but have not
for every moment
that you are faithful
is a moment
blessed upon me
by your presence
and when your final embrace
does come
we will rest together
in eternity
till then
walk with me
show me
how to live every moment
joyfully
by reminding me
every moment
that you will strike
and then, my spirit
will finally
be released
from your embrace
but will you
before that
let me see who you really are
will you reveal your dark secrets
my eternal lover ?
shekhar
you might appreciate the shock i felt when i read this poem, a sense of surprise so strong i couldn’t write a note to you yesterday. it read as if it came from within me. today i can write you thanks, for this lovely piece of thought and writing.
Dear Shekhar Kapur,
I belong to a migrated family from UP-India and born & brought up in Karachi-Pakistan.Though I am a Chartered Accountant by profession, but have passion for Script writing.
Having heard about your career where I found some similarities, I thought to contact you for some guidance for Script writing.Currently I am based in Dubai-UAE, is it possible to write to you or meet you in Dubai (during your next visit to Dubai). I have some script thoughts, which I would like to share & refine with some expert like you
Can you please forward me your email address or other direct contact details.
Thanks and best regards,
asif
+971 508724664
eternal lover = breath/life?
Heaven and Earth
——————
When heaven couples
With the tortured earth
It is said its climax
Can be seen and heard
First comes a stroke of blinding lightning
The mind distorts in a flash of sin,
Then comes the moan, low and pining
Surging to grow to a full-blown cry.
A second later
There’s suspension of time
Just when it seems
This will go on like this
Comes a release
Wrenching the clouds
The clouds writhe and they release
Their climax in spasms, wet and heavy
‘Tis said the heaven
Loves the earth
The story goes the earth doesn’t
Thereby in those very rare occasions
When earth agrees to copulate,
The heaven is laden with built-up lust
Thus when the earth finally gives in
The heaven has waited far too long
It lashes against the unfeeling skin
Tears at the earth, beats it with rain
The heaven cries as it reaches its peak
It bemoans its fate, its tears combine
With its bursting wetness.
The earth is rough and quite used to all this
It bears it all, quite like a man
The earth heaves and leaves to nurse
Its wounds – The hills, the valleys, its scars
The pained Heaven, when it bit and scratched
Opened up wounds on earth
The blood from them, mixed with tears
Trickle down in torrential rivers.
The earth, scarred
Feeling no pain.
The pain of the heavens never unloaded
The heaven departs as spent clouds
Slowly lugging their sadness around
Their lust is gone, surely, and how!
But a new weight they will gain from now.
Their sadness is theirs,
See these rarefied clouds
Will soon build in pent-up lust,
Mixed with sadness
Growing in heat
They will repeat
The never-ending feat
Of Heaven and earth
Copulating in
Vain.
I’m speechless.
U’v said jus abt everything i eva wantd to tell Him!!!
Thanks for being so expressive, I will love to envy you!!!
“but will you
before that
let me see who you really are
will you reveal your dark secrets
my eternal lover ?”
…trust me, u’v touched upon the ultimate truth!!!
God Bless!
I loved this poem so much that I posted it on my blog must watch it there. http://shivani12198.tumblr.com/
Wow !! Mr. Shekhar… I am completely taken away with your amazing thoughts in this poem.
Would love to read much from you.
God Bless your writing much more every day
She becomes awake with your first breath,
Holding you,
You become aware pretty late of her,
Though she devours many around you,
Me at a hospital now,
Watching and waiting whether she will embrace the one
Who is undergoing the knife
Death,
The eternal beloved
The passport to infinity,
From where we all came
And where we will all go back
Truely the eternal lover
“Zindagi toh bewafa hai, ek din thukarayegi, maut mehbooba hai apni saath leke jaayegi”.
Timeless lyrics of Big B movie that captivated my attention even as a child.
Your poem is so much in sync with that feeling. Good, really good.
I for some reason am looking forward to experience the eternal lover, out of joy, out of enthusiam to see the truth behind.
Possibly I have met my eternal lover many times in my earlier lives, but this time our meeting is going to be with an open attitude..with love..with joy..without inhibitions..without prejudice. This time the union is going to be at a soulful level.
And the beauty of meeting my eternal lover can only happen when I live my life completely..then the shedding will be easy..natural. Just like the eating of sugarcane- once you eat it completely, the discardment becomes easy, natural & joyful.
Shekhar I”ve enjoyed every bit of information that U tweet and have enjoyed your works since the Masoom days . This poem’s depth is astounding and while I was reading it the picture of my dear mother came to my mind for I lost her to an accident in an instant . The dance of life and death is eternal and all those who have faith in the magic of life will understand the ultimate truth that death is alas a part of ultimate truth.
I am photojournalist, work in The Hindu newspaper, based in Kolkata. Liked this poem very much. I met u in Hyderabad Film Festival and showed u a bunch of my picture. Wish u very good day ahead. Regards.
I am reminded of imaginary Jodha and her musings from Rushdie’s Enchantress of Florence. And how she derives “pran” from her lover.
under the hood of darkness
of the infinite skies
gentle touch of droplets
as deathly lightning strikes
a bridge over waters
beneath clouds of darkness
the bridge to eternity
as guiding light embraces
walk to freedom, step upon step
embrace the path, breath upon breath
an eternal path to joy, where no secrets lie
engulfed spirit & soul, can only soar & fly
Dear Shekhar,
There are infinite ways to express Eternal Love…One of my favorite song from your Late uncle’s film, I tried to recreate last week, even the singing. This song talks a lot about eternal love..has English translation for the people ,who don’t understand Hindi or Urdu.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqMG4zQZrwo
Regards!
Sanjay
Death!
This is beautiful Shekhar. So many feelings, memories, thoughts just resurfaced.
How beautiful!
just the way it should be..
Pranaam Shekhar ji
Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful! Amazing piece of writing. The emotional work of self-discovery. The bulk of life is discovering who we are? God always cares about who we are primarily..
Death, you’ll stay with me…yes, together much more powerful… Eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
As always I loved it.
Regards
Surabhi