A Longing
Waiting
for you
to hit me
feels
like
an
eternity.
I know
it’s going
to happen,
I just
never
know
when.
I long for
the type of
eternity
where my
heartbeat
is replaced
by
stardust.
24 Poems ~ 24 Hours
Waiting
for you
to hit me
feels
like
an
eternity.
I know
it’s going
to happen,
I just
never
know
when.
I long for
the type of
eternity
where my
heartbeat
is replaced
by
stardust.
PS: I opted for image 1. Assuming I am watching people in this image I have written this poem….
At times, I just watch people
Like now – I see a pregnant woman
I think, what she must be thinking
Maybe – ‘ whether it’s a boy or a girl’.
Crossing the waves,
I see an old man talking to his wife
In so many years of togetherness –
he still finds her benign.
As I sip my lemonade
My eyes fall on a couple
Both are sharing the same table –
yet conversing through their mobiles.
Eavesdropping upon the conversation
A daughter tells to her father
The best new year gift for her –
if he stops smoking forever!
I stop looking around for a while
And I close my eyes to realise
There is a world inside me –
that the adversity just hypnotized!
You said you were sorry
You said you would never do it again
You hugged me
You tried to comfort me
You said it was all my fault
You said if I had done everything right I would be fine
You said you were doing me a favor
You said this is why I don’t have friends
You said I couldn’t leave
You said no one would like me except you
You said I was worthless
You said I was nothing without you
However,
I don’t listen to you anymore
Let me love you from afar though it will just leave a scar
Bring you things you need at times so long as I can see are smiles
Let me love you from afar Let me make you live as star
Turn to me when she makes lies and i will answer all your whys
Let me love you silently Let me laugh with you so free
For it’s the only thing I can It’s better than I will have none
For thorns of pain I’ll gladly bear As long as I can see you near
Though never would you recognize The longing that is in my eyes
But I will love you just the same although your eyes look far to claim
Who knows someday you’ll find some time to see me and our worlds will rhyme
Earth—
your tongue—
flowers bloom
Fire—
your body—
engulfs me
Water—
your kisses—
quench my thirst
Wind—
your touch—
makes me feel
remnants of summer’s sun –
even in your
hard rime
First the girl in shadow
You have become a shadow to the world
yet I still perceive the light in you
it comes from our love
Then a photo of the mountains with the house skeleton in front
Just the house’s eyes and mouth
stand between the moutain cold
and me.
Wind has erased the rest.
I can stare down the most ferocious of beasts.
Ripping splinters from my hand is as painful as swatting away a fly.
Why is it then that when a woman glances in my direction,
My knees become so weak?
Is it out of love?
A natural desire for that which I cannot have?
Or perhaps, it is the emotion that all men hide.
Fear.
Fear of rejection.
Fear of heartache.
Fear of how quickly her laugh can turn from blissful to sadistic.
Such is the bane of man, such is the suffering of the soul.
Curse this confliction! The old adage is true.
“Can’t live with them, can’t live without them.”
Alteration
He pulled her inside
The bus took off noisily
She screamed – they ignored.
Heaven into hell.
Black Clouds moved over the sun.
Her end was near.
Light. Dark. In between.
Joy. Laughter. Success. Destroyed.
Where is the justice?
Why must women hurt?
Do our vaginas Make us weak?
It has to stop now.
Rape. Murder. Lies.
One human against others?
Let’s save each other.
As she dances to the music of the setting sun,
her shadow plays with fireflies