Love Poem: Arundhati Bhande

A  Winter Wednesday

-Arundhati Bhande

On a chilly winter Wednesday morning,  

our lazy bodies lay next to each other

as the sunshine played hide and seek

with the flimsy curtains that

caressed our sleepy faces,

we escaped

On a warmer winter Wednesday afternoon,

we found ourselves in Rumi’s field

"Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing"

my fingertips touched the length of your eye lashes,

as you kept falling in and out of a sweet slumber

On a cooler winter Wednesday evening,

"When our souls lay down in that grass"

you cupped my face in your hands,

as I kept falling in and out of a sweet slumber

On a cold winter Wednesday night,

as the moonlight played hide and seek

with the flimsy curtains, caressing our faces 

"When the world was too full to talk about"

we shared a silent dream