Walking home with Dusk

                                            

    WALKING HOME WITH DUSK                                         
By the bend in the river it stood,

A Gulmohar  in full bloom;

It's rich red crown swaying, like

mutinous flames soaring up

Against the sordid  grey sky.

Every day we passed it by

The falling dusk and I;

And each time we stopped by,

Dusk  vanished up the tree

With  my  bag of earthly woes-

Those tiny shreds of formless ache

The daysoften let me keep. .

Beyond my eye, the tree and dusk

Conjured up their secret spell

A slumber divine did descend

Upon the blooms ,and my woes-

Like fading  petals , they came down

Gliding   gently , in the breeze..

Some  , for  the clouds to gather

Within their warm , fluffy souls,

Some for the wind to scatter

Across the river and endless skies..

Her eternal magic done
how  quietly dusk melted off

Into the night that lay in wait;

All my wordly  cares gone,
I would walk home all alone

Suffused  in her after glow.

                                                                                                                           Lathika Rajesh