Diamonds forever

What do these drops say
Are they the labours of love or pain.

Do they define me or I define them.

Bedecked in these diamonds I have graduated phases.

Sometimes in the glory of youth
Sometimes in heartbreak.

 At times in the grandeur of success, 
Some times succumbing to the vagaries.

They have been with me as my natural ornaments.

 Beautifying me when I engaged in amorous dalliances.
Bathing me in the smell of musk
These diamonds are incandescent.

Trickling from my eyes, glistening my body 
When I heard the birth of life.

These diamonds are my rarest treasures
Diamonds of tears and sweat.

Dev's dasi...

Traded my heart
My body for you, my lord
Your temple my abode

Your ministrations, my sole purpose

Unaware I was
Of your universal presence
Ignorant of your all-embracing essence

Obscured in the vagaries
Cocooned in misery
I was wading
Till you lured me
With your poetic artistry

Dexterously inching closer
Unwrapping me patiently
That blended us together

Oh my saviour,
My harbinger of spring
Chanting and singing at your altar
Is my religion now

Idolizing and realizing you
In your sacrosanct sanctum devotees throng,
Yet I wait patiently
At the entrance for my turn
When it’s just us
Indulgent in the opulence of love

The skies rejoice in astonishingly palette of colours
When the dasi serves her lord
With smoldering religious fervor

When you bedeck me with profound love
Immortalizing me as your chaste devdasi
Forever.

©LR