Love takes you to places
You have never been, from the mystical
To the brazen, even the outright sanctimonious
And sometimes, that trinity beckons you
Like when you sit on a night stool
Searching for a speckle in that soot-painted sky
Only to come across a sparkling shooting star
And love is always at danger
Of finding yourself outright focused
Only to have hazy grey clouds
Inculcate an astigmatism of everything else
When you can think of all the roads away
From that creature that redeems your existence
And that feeling is what scares
The spookiest ghosts out of you.
Love is a boundless subjectivity
From brittle to adamantine
The many faces that might be, yet ought not
And you hold her knowing fate
Holds the key to a spectrum of possibilities
When you can only lasso her as tight
As the heart ropes her
Love – the true kind – will always be the absence of distance
Between two heart, looming in the shadow
Of a fragment of a micrometer.
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Dr Dilantha Gunawardana graduated from the University of Melbourne, as a molecular biologist, and moonlights as a poet. He currently serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Botany, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Dilantha lives in a chimeric universe of science and poetry. Dilantha’s poems have been accepted for publication /published in HeartWood Literary Magazine, Canary Literary Magazine, Boston Accent, Forage, Kitaab, Eastlit, American Journal of Poetry, Zingara Poetry Review, The Wagon and Ravens Perch, among others. Dilantha too has two anthologies of poetry, 'Kite Dreams' (2016) and 'Driftwood' (2017), both brought to the readership by Sarasavi Publishers, and is working on his third poetry collection (The Many Constellations of Home). Dilantha’s pet areas of teaching and research, include, Nitrogen Fixation, RNA biology, Phytoremediation, Agricultural Biology, and Bioethics & Biosafety. Dilantha blogs at – https://meandererworld.wordpress.com/ -, where he has nearly 2000 poems.
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