Elusive

In   the long    journey of life

Shadows   of   desires

Always bewitch   me 

But pebbles of sorrow  

 Shatter my    innocent    desires

Like the image in a broken mirror   .

Wandering   lonely   in   the mountains

With   jumbled   up   thoughts

Looking down upon the dancing waves

Of   the   blue sea

The   sky, peeping from its bottom

Ebb   and tides distract my attention

Like   my  unfulfilled   desires.

I   want to bathe in the fountain of light

To   hold on to its magnificent charm   ,

But the fountain of light, I know, 

 Is an illusion,   like the   eternal joy ?

The   sunrays   passing through want to cover

All the dispersed leaves and branches of a tree                

I, in search of unheralded path of happy valley, 

Gathering all   the thoughts   together

Look for the   eternal peace,

My   consciousness   wavers   

And I only behold the shoreless glittering sky                 

                                                                               

Alas, all is elusive.                                                                

Pushpa  Mehra

Pushpa.mehra@gmail.com