Sometimes <br />in distant foreign lands, when <br />pangs of loneliness caress me with the forgotten love <br />and eerie solitude smothers me with gloomy affection <br />then I blow the dust of time <br />gathered on my mind’s chronicle <br />bearing the tag “Home Sweet Home” <br />and carry the excess-baggaged burden <br />of my recollections from the past, <br /> <br />I still recall our sad parting <br />when your tearful eyes dripped saline water <br />which blended with the salty waters of the seven seas <br />I had crossed once, <br />sailing with sobbing sentiments in a stone-hearted ship. <br /> <br />After my nimble departure <br />how the streets in my hometown were deserted, <br />and prickly cactus plants spawned from <br />the rose shrubs in our garden <br />The age old Banyan tree had shed <br />silent tears under its gregarious shade <br />wailing peacocks dance no more in our backyard <br />and my desolate dwelling transformed into <br />an abandoned hoary graveyard. <br /> <br />I long to kiss those burgundy lips of the blowing easterly winds <br />that whisper your enamourous name <br />while immortal memories of the whiff of <br />my native soil and floral landscapes, <br />snow-clad mountains and rusty desert sands, <br />lush-green forests and sun-kissed pastures, <br />crystal-clear streams and foam-covered beaches, <br />cosmos of unfettered torrents and intrepid thunderbolts <br />milieus of gold-dusted mornings and hue-sprinkled evenings <br />glittering metropolitan skyline and vivid village panoramas, <br />welcome me with their wide open benign arms <br />to come back to my sanctimonious roots. <br /> <br />Though I have come a long way from home <br />far away from your sacred lands, <br />very far from your perfect ambience <br />but it is my heart’s desire now <br />to end my alien life’s journey in your perpetual paradise. <br />Hence, i will return to the emollient womb of my motherland, <br />where I was once born… <br /> <br />Copyright ©2008 Bharat B. Trivedi<br /><br />Bharat Trivedi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/home-coming-5/
