The Guito Govinda

The 12 short chapters of the guito govinda depict the divine in a relationship of passionate love. The value of a divinity that can be expressed in darting eyes, trembling hands and lips bruised from kissing escaped him. There are firm breasts pressed nails dug in to make crescent shaped marks on his dark skin,. beads of sweat like rows of pearls glowing in the moonlight. Even when the sensuous objects are gone, my mind holds on to her in a trance. This is passion. We wonder whether she will relent.