Love Poem: Arctic Afterglow
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Written by: Hiya Sharma

Arctic Afterglow


When the 
glacial sun slips 
in softened womb 
of the scarlet 
spheres at dusk, 
yearning for 
hibernal rebirth 
as a lustrous 
morning star, 
it radiates 
golden beams 
like lakes of sunshine,
flowing over 
chiming starlit bells 
in our hazy haven;
and I scrap 
frosted flakes
off the bittersweet 
pamphlets that 
whisper our names 
in the misty winds 
of 'Us'. 

Calming the 
coalesced chaos 
within my 
infernal pulses, 
his warmth drapes
this enchanted soul 
with daffodil-
smudged days
of hot cocoa amidst 
a wintry wonderland. 
If I could bloom 
like an arctic 
afterglow's heart 
on bare alpine trees, 
I would only 
choose him to be 
my daylight-
perfumed violet 
scent, evermore. 

I can never 
stroll away 
from the shimmering 
silverine memory, 
when my muse's
trust breathed 
hailstorm's poesy in 
my solstitial lungs 
and kissed the 
fractals of a bruised 
poet's spirit.

Dreaming of yuletide,
I achingly yearn 
to become the 
silken apricity of 
those soft lyrics
that swing in his 
thundersnow thoughts 
and frostbitten flesh, 
re-writing the jaggery saga
of twin-sanguine-lovers
in beige brushstrokes
of foggy 'We'.

Sometimes,
I forsake to 
surrender and 
ask for a peaceful
nod from the 
'Lord of Soulmates', 
can I be the 
honeysuckle ink 
for my beloved's
watercolor feather, 
always nurturing
the snowy twists of 
our tale within fate's 
untold wisdom? 

When I desire 
to wander in 
black-iced myths of 
insatiable agony, 
will he become 
my bejeweled healer 
and fight off those
sombre silhouettes 
of Jack Frost's 
saudade, like a samurai? 

For, I take him 
as the gift of 
my last wish, 
forever inhaling 
the chilly secrets 
of our lantern-
lives in my 
subconscious visions, 
that keep me 
alive upon
crestfallen sleets 
of intuitive icicles;
I want to live forever, 
in his pearly eyes' abode, 
which coruscates
with glossy lustre 
of fireflies and 
makes me flutter
my hiemal 
white wings like a 
spellbound fairy in 
grey-orchid sonatas.