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A Bit Of Me

When I leave I shall have left, No footprints on sand No ripples on still blue waters No images on mirrors So when I leave, Can I leave a bit of me with you?

Star

The night I stared at the heavenward blue, The night my heart had wept for you. Stranded on that sooty black A pair of stars up and high I knew I loved, I remember those eyes But who, at all was the answer to my cries The glitter his eyes had cast in glee Her words had stuck like dust on me. Shady ghosts arrived to veil Till i finally caught the trail... She was the answers to all my prayers The fingers that gnawed deep into my layers She was the dawn to my deathly nights She was the star, even from long afar that drenched me in an eternal light.

How?

How do you do that? Undress me one layer at a time And kiss that void deep into the pits of my stomach with those eyes And how do you tangle and detangle locked away abysses of passion in me effortlessly, like strands of hair snarled in your fingers How do you fit with ease, into my arms like puzzle pieces? We were strangers, after all...

Conspiracy

Then I, wet with desires and forlorn To forgotten hymns from yesterday and drenched in praises of Gods from the sky. In our secret penchant for the ultimate union Through blurred glasses and webs of dreary hair Between rumbles of ache and background noises Us, torn apart by distances and sewn, in hems of a major conspiracy- Love.

A Nobody

The way your eyes smirk at my existence and heavy breaths sublime under hallucinating lights The rifts of your wet lips, abhorrent and unawaiting On mine sometimes, sometimes gone A lover's sigh, and poet's respite, You. The splash of aquamarine to my gloomy canvases.

Unworthy

The ode to her sorrow,  in the life she has lived, The love she ever held in her heart,  the love she never received.

Undone

In her leaving, I saw the death of a hundred moments of hopes and love crumble onto earth. In her dismay, I saw the love in my heart grow wilder, desperate in longing her touch of solace. In her smiles, I saw the forgotten heartaches we traded through fragrant air in the death of the night. In the twinkle of her eyes, I saw a new love settle down on veneers of dust-clad memories of holding hands and wiping tears. In a jiffy, I saw her love me and leave me And all at once, came undone

The Lost Lover

A century had elapsed between her two sentences. Eons of pain and inducement of sorrow; the demise of an edifice of emotions and new acclimatization to absence. Even though it has been years now, like unheralded summer storms on the coast, I saw, a fleet of gloomy clouds pass over her. It all rushed to grab her. As if for a jiffy, she could again feel her nerves severed, throbbing and oozing scarlet in that hospital corridor amidst shrieks of agony. For that moment, it seemed so near that I could see her pupils dilated (or was it tears?) and she was almost craving for death. Time had flown past like wild air as she had striven to let that burning sensation sink deeper into her flesh and scar her for life. A moment. Only one of the so many years. Like the bloody remnants of her last letter of love. One that never reached her lover. The last hope she held on to. The holy water on her lips before she drifted away. -"I had a lover" - "He is gone"

Felony

In the blur of a lone violin, In the empty halls of a desolate theater, stands a solitary silhouette The ghosts of her pasts, her phantom felonies of love.

Freckle

I was a virgin canvas your lips couldn't stain I had waterfalls inside my chest your eyes couldn't contain I ached in places your hands couldn't touch I spoke of autumns words couldn't adorn much So what you loved that beauty spot on the edge of my waist, Alongside thrived a freckle you had already abandoned in haste.

New Dawn

Beneath foggy blankets, we lay in still darkness, discovering hands on hands and heartbeats on heartbeats... Touching the edge of our lips~ ecstasy, an unforgotten craving Caught in limbo, our words defiant and skin to skin our goosebumps hum... Is it just mouths, or are we one? At dawn, like the moonlight plunging into the embrace of sun...

Death Comes Closer

When the passion in my veins becomes the poison in my blood and death comes closer by a step I will not shrivel in sudden fear or dissolve into a mist of a pitiable plight For even when I die My words will illuminate lives with it's perennial light.

Eclipse

Stars call out to me As I lay on a bed of fireflies at night Smoking a cigarette,  burning in reminiscences I say, "I have been missing my moon" "But she is gone tonight", they retort, "Radiating aura in someone else's arms" So I lay awake till dawn Musing the eclipse between me and the world everytime we kissed.

A Morning

It was in that morning. At the crack of dawn, she rose up from bed unable to bear the inconsequential lying anymore. Sleep had barren her like rain does to a land too devoted in it's sunny rendezvous. She climbed upto the rooftop. The sun was still an infantile globoid of vermillion gracing the dark sky as if it were the parting of an Indian woman's hair. Lights still glowed on aloof distant buildings visible despite the fog. She saw a pigeon bossing around another and ravens that had risen from their slumber to the joy of hovering amidst the clouds. But no sign of human could be traced. No cool winds swept past. No coos or barks or mews were heard save for an isolated crow's melancholic rendition. As if the world had come to a standstill around her. She stood alone, basking in the glory of the dawn for sometime. And then like nothing at all it came rushing to settle on her like stubborn dust. In that moment, that day, propped on that makeshift sofa she had designed for

Autumn

The melody onto your chest that plays, Muddy rains on the window as the evening slays. Your voice echo to the tune of my laboured breath And aside, on the floor, our masks layeth You show your scars and corpses from the past I lay my fears to rest at last My body, you worship in your lover's grace Holy rituals in our sweet embrace Goosebumps like vales on my forlorn skin Awakened spirits like embers within Amidst our rubbles, blows an ignorant breeze, My soul so long a slave, you set release...

Stargazing

Naked, onto the virgin's bed, She said,  "You look beautiful" And I conformed, shy, Of the loving, or the praise And flinched in a moment Pulling away, almost like a temptress Only to draw her closer My lover took me, held in the hazel brown hypnotism of her eyes And then flicked through my mind, the toddler me on the terrace that night Every night, In love with the solitary star heavenward.                  ~Forever. (I wish)

Relief ~ A Haiku

Drizzles on my window sill And maladies of disbelief, The heart still shrieks of scorching pain The soul, sighs relief.