Time: Long gone

A narrow
Uphill road
slithering like a sleek gray snake
through fleeting mist
Patting fresh greens
Like her
Fresh bathed palm
old stones
mute spectators to a time
long gone…

Creepers
like bystander villagers,
naive
With dangling talisman
In arms and waist,
Hallucinated or mesmerized
By the magic of visuals
Of the time
Long gone….

Willowing smoke
From deprived hearths
Spiralling around
Like warm hug
Pressing cleavages
Of fleshy times
Long gone….

My journey
To solitude
Is yet
So filled with you
Reflecting
Through each object
Crossing my view.
You
Who leaps within me
Like flares of pyre
Burning my wishes
To a singed desire
Of time
Long gone…..

(Mrityunjay)