Sleep When in Sleep

The sky searches in tears,
for rain-day songs.

Kadambari weeps and dies,
beyond the impossible shore.

The restless companion calls,
burdened even by languor.

Gazing toward the path,
thorns mark tomorrow.

Kananprabha has found
a servant in sickness.

The self-forgetting one forgets,
kohl-dark wedding moves on.

Joy-faced in Nayana's dwelling,
a sky-colored refuge.