Sometimes, quite naturally
Expressing your innermost feelings
Become an uphill task
As your moods are
Constantly revolving in a pendulum
Beguiling you, with a sensual
Touch of bliss to be replaced
At any moment, with untold agonies
Biting you unawares,
With a hissing serpent’s venom
And as time goes on
Mother-nature patiently
Takes a firm grip on you
Pampering you, seductively
With its marvels of star-lit nights
And roar of hurricane – winds
Impressing you to no end
With its bewitching charm
As you find a chord of affinity
with the mighty structure of cosmos
Allowing you, a liberal space or platform
To roam all over the world
Like a carefree bird
Somersaulting in the azure sky
Propping up, your mental faculties
With relative ease to its peak condition
And you feel, the greatness,
In your thoughts liberating from
All the shackles, that imprisoned you
For an uncountable number
Of centuries, as you are engaged
Steadfastly, in your destined pursuit
Of transmuting your deepest emotions
which suddenly find a new life
As heart – rending poems
And surely you have lived
A worthy and noble life, my son
Being rich in your thoughts
And deeds,empowering and enlivening
The memorable and checkered
Course of human civilization
And more importantly
Changing its angle, vertically,
though admittedly, perhaps
Only by one inch.
- Ranjan M. Amarasinghe.