The night stood still, I peered through the bedside window into the wilderness .

 Through the darkness, as pace slowed down,only quietness prevailed.

  Stray dogs barked to make their presence felt from marshlands beyond and waited

 Mangroves spread its bushes all over  the silent waters and gazed

 Long legged herons flapped its whiteness sleepily as the night  passed

   A lone motorboat broke  silence as it races across the jetty black.

   The glazing sea  lolls nearby  plays  to and fro  curling up more of  the  shore

   High tides rise, the sea prepares as it ventures out  in a race.

   The  queen of the night flower bloomed to shower its heady fragrance as far

   Only once each year at midnight it endeared to offer all of itself this day

 The scent seeped into the dark sea breeze to fill the air with its magic spell  before  the flower will  silently wither

    Along with the flower, parting  lovers opened to dance in unison with passion and abandon while the world stood still for the moment 

    Like Indian demigods in myth the two met to dance long but once

   To celebrate their life of love for once

    Giving like nature, timeless, happy, peaceful  within

   While the moon with the  veil of cloud looked  quietly on