The Desert

The Desert

The White Salt Desert -  Rann of Kutch

Here I am my friend

In this full moon night

Standing on the shimmering whiteness

That was once a sea.

No water, no oasis, no shelter, no movement

Is this how life was meant to be?

She deserted me.

My endless prayers all unanswered

And days passed in daze.

I waited for her to return

Not seconds, not minutes, not hours

 But more than a thousand four sixty days.

The sandstorm stops

But I continue to weep and mourn

Questioning Him

Is this the life for which I was born?

So in the search for my answers

Inattentive, I start to walk alone on this hard salt

Trying to figure out what was my fault.

Now with an ocean of tears drying out

My wide-open eyes gazed

The starry night merging with the unending horizon

Where Hydra, Virgo, Aries and Great Bear continued to play games

I now see the whole universe smilingly looking down on me

 ‘Stars can’t shine without darkness my friend’, they say

In the middle of this white loneliness, I find my answers, I find my way.