Thinkest not thou that thou have not <br />Caused the miseries and pains <br />That thy love inflicted on my soul <br />From the Helen in the troy or the Eve <br />From Eden did I sacrifice my divinity <br />In the deep mystery of love thou have cast <br />My wondering spirit reinvent the goddess <br /> <br />But the lover as was I <br />To reveal to the world <br />In the flights of my imagination <br />Houris or Venus or Rekha <br /> <br />My tears did flow like the holy Jamuna <br />On the Nile did I build temples of gold <br />The beauty of mind thou speakest <br />Did I have but thou only enlightened <br />Like Mona Lisa before the great Da Vinci <br /> <br />Lover am I for the shrine of thy beauty <br />On the beat of drum when I am drunk <br />With wine old in the memory of those lips <br />Wine and wine and red wine <br />When thou art the saki in the tavern of my heart <br />(A sequel to 'As beautiful as me part 3' by poetess Reshma Ramesh) <br />24/9/2008<br /><br />Sadiqullah Khan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-temptress-ii/
