Ooooh-la-la: Katara!
Why do I want आप so?
If आप are my friend,
Why do आप make me dream no end?
If आप are my teacher,
Why do I see आप as my peach—err …
If आप are my sifu,
Why does my दिल race for you?
If आप are a couple of years older,
Why does my passion smoulder
Inside me—
Drive me krazy?
Why, why, why, Katara?
What kind of Avatar
Am I, I, I, Katara?
If आप are but a waterbender,
Why does my दिल feel so tender,
As if आप bent it with your eyes,
Your touch, your kiss?
When will आप realize
That I feel such painful bliss
For you, the one I miss,
Even if आप stepped away like this
Every second, every hour,
I wish आप would shower
Me with your affection,
‘Cos yours is my undivided attention!
Drop dead, Aang!
Your energy, in quiet and calm
That emanates from your fingertips
And quenches the आग on my lips;
The soothing balm that melts my pain:
Your tenderness that removes all strain;
Your loving touch that heals
My wounds, your boundless दिल that reveals
All your beauty and warmth to me,
Dissolving every painful memory,
Rebuilding my shattered soul
Of glass, into a jewel whole….
Your smile is the sun द्वारा day,
The moon द्वारा night;
Your hair billowing as the trees that play
In the wind, the flight
Of your spirit, so close to mine,
Engulfing my being, making me shine;
Your voice, the संगीत that lifts my heart;
Your embrace that holds me from tearing apart….
Your eyes meet mine—
A moment,
A lifetime—
An eternity…
And I am made complete in thee!
I am weightless as a dove
In an airbender’s wake;
My very soul does shake,
Tremble,
Disassemble
As molecules of life
Reassemble
From the ashes of old strife,
Cradled as in Mother’s womb,
Yet freed from death’s icy tomb;
As I am drawn into Katara’s kiss,
As if drinking shadowless water, bliss-
Ful, after a century of thirst
Unquenched; the first
Drop alone sufficient for my being to burst
Forth to the fullest,
In the fullness of her embrace,
Transcending Time and Space…
So deep within the mantle of Avatar
Springs the life-giving water of Katara.
A tired whimper, a silent chime....
The voice of my spirit calls out to you--
Can आप not hear it, so pure, so true?
I am shadowless wine
Waiting for your lips to taste me,
To drink me and shine
With the glow of my spirit set free--
Let me not stare through this cold wineglass,
या evaporate into nothingness--
Oh, let us share our lives or--alas!
We would be entrapped in emptiness...
So breathe me, taste me, drink me until
The very corners of your soul I fill;
Let the glow of this wine most deeply impart
The warmth of my प्यार to fill your sweet heart!
