Sunday, May 15, 2011

The sunbeam broke into a rainbow before my eyes

It began with total silence,
Silence as deep as the sea;
Then the birds began chirping,
Rhythmic and yet a trifle noisy.

The sun had set an hour back,
And the moon never could conjure an emotion so;
What had catalyzed such a reaction,
My heart needed to know.

And then before my eyes I saw the reason,
I saw and I instantly understood too;
Her smile was like the first rays of sunshine,
of course the birds twittered, wonder how the sky didnt turn blue.

She saw me look, heck clearly stare,
and threw me a look of indgnity veiled in a 'I don't care'.
I gulped, proper impression this could not be,
Offended had I inadvertently, a maiden so fair.

By then she knew as all women do,
an art about which, we have no clue.
entrapped was I, a fly in a web,
I tried to pull back and slipped, how I never knew.

She burst out, the giggle turned into laughter,
And the sunbeam turned into a rainbow before my eyes.
I was embarassed and yet awestruck by her beauty,
The pain of falling, paling before a million sighs.

And then someone called her name and I paused,
For the name I had always known;
She walked up to me with a half smile in her eyes,
There was a little mischief in the sunbeam that shone.

She then came close and in my ear spoke,
The words I did not hear for the illusion broke,
Ironically it was a sunbeam that opened my eyes,
I lay there in the sunshine as I awoke.

It was a dream and yet the smile I had seen before,
The face though hazy, stood clearly apart.
Surrounded by a million smiles in the universe,
There is but one sunbeam in my heart.

- Pranay Rao