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.

Hour 3 Prompt – Hypnotized

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!

Poem 3

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

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

Hour one.

Earth—

your tongue—

flowers bloom

 

Fire—

your body—

engulfs me

 

Water—

your kisses—

quench my thirst

 

Wind—

your touch—

makes me feel

Prompt three

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.

Bane of Men

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

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.

Fireflies

As she dances to the music of the setting sun,
her shadow plays with fireflies