When I was taken over by desire <br />I consumed myself in the fire <br />Forsake my book of wisdom <br />Forgot the pleasures of freedom. <br /> <br />The ice seeks the heat <br />To melt and join the river <br />River loves the slope <br />In its rush to be consumed (by the salty broth.) <br /> <br />It doesn’t matter whether <br />The wax burns the flame <br />Or the flame melts the wax <br /> Embrace of desire consumes both. <br /> <br />It was our goal to reach love’s misty peak <br />But all the effort made our limbs weak <br />Blinding mists dissolved our forms away <br />And we fought the cold with our locked grip. <br /> <br />Now, when fate is blowing our breath away <br />When forms and names are fading away <br />We discover the hard truth <br />That it takes a lifetime to fulfill a love<br /><br />Raghavan Warrier<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sacrifice-10/
