16

I'm a teenager in your love,
the pit of my stomach a butterfly garden,
my mouth parched for yours,
my heart, brave and untarnished, waging a war against the world
and eyes only for you.
I'm sixteen in your love even as my bones are as brittle as could be.

- A woman, a lover, 60

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I forgot for a while that I existed before I met you.

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Tere ghar se kuch dur ek ghana ped hai
Uss ped ki chav badi meethi lagti thi...
Tu shehar chhod chala gaya, khair koi shikwa nehi
Woh chav abhi bhi meethi lagti hai...

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I keep old letters to remind myself that I was loved dearly once.

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You cannot say you're in love with the moon and only gaze at it when it's full and gleaming.

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Someone thinks of you when they listen to sad songs.

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Mere itne kareeb rehna ke hawa ko bhi rukh modna pade...

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You were poison to me.
But elixir to my art.

You were killing me yet keeping me alive.

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Tera pyaar tha ke kankar tha...
Ankho se nami bann ke behte rahe...

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THE DOOR

So your memories were tucked away
in a tiny corner of my heart
and just as I was about to forget the road
that leads to your house,
out of the blue,
I dreamt of you
and my feelings were all over town.
Maybe the fact that you
came into my life,
knocked on the door of my heart,
were welcomed in
and the fact that
one day you decided to quietly leave
never bothered me as much as
the fact that you did not care enough
to close the door on your way out
and I was left thinking
that you may have gone away
only for a while
to come back any moment.

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