THAT KIND OF LOVE
- Tapan Kumar Pradhan (India)
I want to be loved just
once
Fried alive in the tandoor of passion
Not smouldering here and there
In bits and pieces
That does not burn
up my inner fuels.
If you can give me that kind of love,
Come, erupt like a volcano
Spew hot stones down my darkest
entrails
Spreading lava into my secret corridors
And burst my veins
With the abrasion
of a billion galactic fireballs
Centaurus,
Sombrero, Andromeda – devour me once for all.
If you can give me that kind of love
Come raging like a tsunami
Bringing cities
and ships in your flanks
And crash into my heart with a piercing
pain
Filling my banks
With the debris of
a hundred civilisations
Incas, Aztec,
Manchuria – I want to be buried in it all.
After that it will not matter anymore
if I were dead
you were dead
the world were
dead.
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