You never needed any particular reason
To explain away
Your wild unbound hair
The kolaahalam
As you approach near
You were that bright darkness
I sought
I kept hankering after
Not acknowledging
That You were in me
Near me, all around
Like a freshly worn perfume
You were mother
friend
That someone
Or something
Which silenced all doubts in me
Come, come to me Love!
Take me any way you
Deem fit, or unfit
Just let me be in you
Even as an irritation
No Kali
No black pearl
Will evolve out of me
You are reason enough
Obsession enough
They will never comprehend
Love
They will appreciate its neighbourhood
Don’t bother
Don’t give your reasons
Let them interpret
Your silence
Whichever way they want
Let me not return
Let me travel
Only deeper and deeper into you
My black nothingness
My dark everything!
*Thiruvathira Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi was born XII Princess of the erstwhile State of Travancore
