I wait for you no more

I wait for you no more

I wait for you, no more
Not in languorous, lazy afternoons
Drowsy in its' warmth
Not in the long, scented nights
Awake to their own beauty

Not even as I watch
A single dew drop
Gather in itself
Hold its' world together
A moment, a breath
Before falling
To it's end

I wait for you, no more
For what can you bring
What can I give
More than what we have exchanged ?

The knowledge of being worthy
Of love
The promise of growing in it

The warmth of memories
To blanket our days
When the creeping vine
Of cold loneliness
Strangles our hearts

An introduction
To that part of us
Hitherto unknown

So with thanks
I watch you go
To your own destiny
And wait for you, no more

--shubha