FINGERS

I love kissing your fingers
you know they ooze love i alone can see
love drips from their tips
like drops from slender blades of leaves
i alone can see
they extend towards me with those unseen messages of love
and innocence
you know how they became so long?
in search of love,in order to love
they extend towards me like the benign branches of a giant banyan
when i touch them
when i kiss them
your sensitive fingers
i feel the unique ecstasy of the concreteness of love
they look dipped in love
dripping
i alone can see
your finger "tips" !!
             -- by Santhosh Kumar Kana
(M)