Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
Ah! Could I kiss you now, and lose myself
In the flood of your dark singing mystery�
Primeval, death-deep tide!
Could I kiss you on the mouth, and my thrilled soul
Peer into the immensity of your immeasurable being!
Could I, in the sea-soft touch of your lips, find
The meaning of things–beyond, beyond the senses!
But I cannot reach you; for the sap of life
That would have sipped the ecstacy of the sun,
Is trapped in the seed.
I have waited too long and toyed with empty words;
They have starved my soul, and now like dead crusts
They lie round me, choking the apertures of life;
I try to reach you through swathes of age-old drivel.
Vainly, idly I talk to you–you, who will not hear;
–The water–soaked faggot meets the flint in vain:
I let you go by.