Love Poem: Ilakkiya My Love

Ilakkiya My Love

Ilakkiya my love

 

Ilakkiya is her name 

From the lips to heart she will enjoy the sweet 

Breeze will come and ask her to blow 

Sun will come polish her face 

Many angels are her maidens 

She is Ilakkiya, My love 

 

Her jetblack hair will cover the face of moon 

Her sweet red lips will cover the morning sun 

She is Ilakkiya', My Love 

 

Every daybreak her smiles spread the rays 

Her walk creates new steps in the dance 

Her words are borrowed by cuckoo to sing 

She is Ilakkiya, My love 

 

The charms of love start from her eyes and 

pierce my heart as arrows to fill the pores 

deer comes to learn how gleefully to leap 

She is Ilakkiya,  My love 

 

In the corridors of her memory

I have walked five and forty years 

To hear her songs of love the rest of the life

Open I shall keep my ears