The flickering flame

I wonder, will this precious moment
Of moonlight, so lucent in the sky,
Pearly rays filtering through pink tinted clouds
And the dark leafy curtain
Where the exhausted koel keeps
Her vigil in the stillness..listening, listening..
Be extinguished, without a chance
For the flickering flame
Somewhere in the silence
Of a lost forest, to ignite
Into the blazing flame
It was meant to be..?

In the silence of the night
A dog howls, singing its hymn
To the moon, so aloof, so remote,
Sliding in and out
Of those clouds
That have not rained
Oblivious to the flickering flame
Somewhere in the darkness
Of a lost forest