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