Vijaya Sundaram

Poet, Musician, Teacher, and Amateur Visual Artist

Waiting to be Found

Waiting to be Found

©April 10, 2015

By Vijaya Sundaram

I see you, intent, focused

On shadows and light,

And I see your eyes move

As you follow fantasies

On flat, hollow surfaces,

Made and sold everywhere

For you.

And I wish I could

Blow away the cobwebs

In your mind

And open windows

And fling open doors

And sweep out the floors

For you!

I feel for you,

Ensconced in darkness

Playing with shadows,

Imagining you’re happy

With games and candy,

Perhaps thinking

What’s out there?

Out there are stars,

And sky, and clouds

And birds, and trees

And flowers and bees,

Waiting to be found.

And angles and angels,

Archetypes and archangels

And anarchy and autarchy

And humanity and divinity

Waiting to be found.

And songs and poems,

And inventions and theories

Dreams and prophesies,

And a wildly spinning earth,

All waiting to be found.

One day, there will be you,

Held aloft by loose string,

Looking for all of this,

For a way out of all that,

Waiting.