The Fantasy of the Woods
Barefoot, I stepped on the twigs and the dry leaves,
Loving the cracking sound they make as they break,
Hating the noise at the same time,
As, they might wake those sleeping monsters
From whom I was running!
Barefoot, I plunged deeper and deeper into the forest
Braving its dense shrubs and its lazy snakes,
Its furry koalas and its napping alligators,
Its prowling wolves and its preying carnivorous plants!
I hardly knew where I was going,
I hardly knew anything about my past,
I could only recollect waking up in an open cage,
Next to sleeping monsters, all smelling of narcotics
And alcohol,
Seemingly too taken up with their high waves
To care about me!
Still, seconds before I woke up, I had seen, in my dream
A Goddess, dressed in a blood red saree and being
So magnificent in appearance, with milky flawless skin
And beautiful traits, looking like
She could be the Queen of Existence!
"Wake up," she had said to me in a riddling manner,
"Wake up and dive into the darkness in front of you!"
Her words I did listen, fearing nothing and no one
For, whatever be the cause of everything, whatever be
The consequences of everything,
What matters and what shall matter remains
Her will being fulfilled!
My heart started thumping, the moment I saw, in front of me
Trees sliding away and making the way for me
To reach the clearing, where, a prince sat by the side of his horse
And my dead body!
He was sobbing uncontrollably, shaking and clenching his fists
So much that the veins of his neck stood out!
Then, it all came back to me, I am his beloved and together
We have been fleeing our native soils, as, it would seem,
Our love was deemed as being a sin!
Love, being expressed in this way in my usually stony prince
Was more than melting!
It started playing notes in heart, causing my femininity
To dance and my whole senses to simply explode
As would the most destructive of volcanoes!
So,
Taking a huge gulp, I dived into my own body and woke up
To his disbelieving eyes and to a lifetime of love
As has been willed not only by both of us
But also by the Mother Goddess who visited me in my dream!
Written on 7th January 2019
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