ANOUCHEKA GANGABISSOON

ANOUCHEKA GANGABISSOON

 FOR HOW LONG SHALL YOU RUN?

For how long would you choose to run

Asked Cupid to my soul

The Purity of the life you live

Requires you to fall into the arms of Love!

Why, don’t you know, he continued

That souls, when they fall on Earth

Are separated by the wills of their fate?

Don’t you know

That their sole aim in life

Remains in finding each other?

For how long would you choose to run

Pretending that Love

Triggers not the sleeping volcano in you?

You may do as you so wish

Run and hide in the most mysterious of all monasteries,

Live in the persona of a flower

Or even that of a stone

Why, I shall find you

And strike in the very depth of your soul

My arrow,

Which, guided by the wills of my own winds

Shall have you lost in Love’s embrace!

MUSINGS ON A DARK NIGHT

Stars play their games in the night sky

Twinkling at will

And causing me to wish I could catch them

The moon glows brighter,

Till, I feel my whole body

Immersed in its glow

Why, if only I could have a silvery hue

Around me forever, topped with a silvery

Coated diamond crown

Why,

Wouldn’t I have been the Queen of the Night?

The one known to be so in love with her King,

As the latter’s sole aim remains in saving me

Yet, the one who remains so elusive

That finding him is such a toil!

Pray, The Milky Way itself starts dancing

Upon seeing my musing plight,

Love is meant to be a celebrated art

Yes, love is meant to be worked for

To suffer for

To yearn for

So that it gets appreciated,

Writes The Milky Way in starry sparkles

If I do allow you to catch stars

And to wear the moon’s glow over you

You would not know of love’s value!

Learn,

Learn to be patient

Learn to keep your heartbeats in check

Learn to soothe your desires

Learn,

And you shall know of the value of Love!

THE WHISPERED DUET

Open your eyes,

Whispered the Lover

Open your eyes, let me see their shine

No, I whispered back,

I won’t!

The night stood still as I kept my eyes shut

And let my cheeks flare crimson

The night stood still as it listened to the hungry

Breath of the Lover!

Without another word,

He put his arms around me

And buried his faced in my femininity

So much that I realized not

When I lost all contact

With reality

Caring solely to drive my concentration

Towards his prompting stimulations!

Unable to bear it anymore

I opened my eyes

And turned even more crimson

As I gazed into his

And saw the same passionate intensity

That burned in my heart!

You opened them, he whispered

At last!

I shall open them, whispered I

Only for you

The night held its breath and stood still

As both the Lover and I

Acted out our whispered duet

In its shadowy fragrance!

ANOUCHEKA GANGABISSOON

ANOUCHEKA GANGABISSOON is a Primary School Educator in Mauritius.  She writes poetry and short stories as hobby.  She considers writing to be the meaning of her life as she has always been influenced by all the great writers and wishes to be, like them, immortalized in her words.  Her works can be read on poetrysoup.com and she had also appeared in various literary magazines like SETU, Different Truths, Dissident Voice, In Between Hangovers Press, WISH Press, Tuck’s Magazine, Blue Mountain Review, among others.  She has also been published in Duane’s Poetree and also in two anthologies for the Immagine and Poesia group.  Her poems are often placed in free online contests