IN SEARCH OF A LOVE LAND
Roula Pollard

                                         

The scent of the sea travels with me since birth,
countless places I’ve discovered,
people I yearned to meet in time, I met
and when I touch abundantly your hand 
a voice like the existence of all beings
awakens in me from the earth, like 
a house opening its destiny to God
in hope and love

But when emptiness cries into a lonely heart
when hunger and destruction afflicts the world
when love is absent, I know that place
I discover what hurts
I understand the cause of pain

Touch love alive in the world; its plains and valleys
oceans, springs and waterfalls of body, soul and mind
the cosmic entrance of awareness
opens to love's mystery
as sunrise gives birth to blueness
it gives me back my human face

© Roula Pollard
excerpt
"Century of Love"
Translated into Telugu by Dr L Sr Prasad

Photos Google credit