Where God Sleeps

Yellow sand bequeathed by shadow of river, washing its morning face with moments of Advent water. Grizzly air sucking up freedom of river’s face. Lying dead an age-old peepul tree fulfilled its lifelong wish to die on the river’s lap. Quick silvery fish exhibits random painting of sunrays on its sheeny existence. Nightlong river composed serenade, when shall thou village children jump on her lap. Silence witnessed only, every moment of nightlong love moonlight played with vastness of riverbed. Dancing with ecstatic wave in a Sapphic’s morning, alone shadow of a palm tree shows the face of GOD. A poem by goutam hazra