The flicker

 

Amidst the surging peril towards dusk

While the flame blazed under the sun

Now with elongated shadows of the day

The breeze that nourished the sparkle

Swells into a rampaging tempest

Conspires with the swarming clouds

And conjures up the startled chime

While the twilight stretches his palm

To smother the floundering fluorescence

The flicker that is sown in residual dreams

Gasps to clutch the brim with a frantic might

Never to fade till the last drop in her lamp.

Goa, Assonora

2324

8.11.25

09.22 hrs