For you it was infatuation
For me it was love
For you it was an effervescence of ecstasy
For me it was melancholy
For you the the sand trickled in the hourglass
For me the time stood still
For you I was a recourse
For me you were my refuge
And may be some day
For you I would be a longing
For me you would be a stranger that I pass by

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"There are other ways to move on" I said as I sipped the last gulp of my drink, it was my fourth
He looked at me as if I had just told him the biggest lie he could have heard
He stood up with an awe on his face and walked away and I was left in complete silence of the beautiful moonlit night

In that brief moment of silence i couldn't help myself but somehow I drifted back in time when we were "us"
Thinking about how I would have done anything that you could have asked for, and how your smile on my lamest of jokes made my day

I began thinking have I "moved on" from you as they say cause somehow you hadn't crossed my mind for the last couple of days and that was something that hasn't happened before. Have I really forgotten about you or has my mind given up on the last sliver of hope that we could be "us" again someday

As I stood in silence contemplating my thought he came from behind and said,"make me another drink"

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At the start of our story
The end was nowhere in sight
But as the pages turned of our book of love
The distance between us crept up
Hopefully someday we could mend the gap
And revist the past with tears
Not of hate or remorse but of love and longing
And of the little things we missed about each other
Like your eyes looking away from me
Hoping if you looked away
Our end would also cease to be

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The moment I saw you for the first time
My heart skipped a beat
For the first time I felt
Like something was worth living for
Like in this world filled with chaos
A momemt of solitude
Like an oasis in the middle of desert
Like a cacoon has give birth to a beautiful butterfly
Whose wings would flap the existance of our world
A world away from the rules and regulations of people
Where we could be finally free, free of all that is
And make a world of us, where there is love and you

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The old dusty hourglass lying in the corner of the room
Had seen the best and seen the worst too
I flipped it hoping the time will turn too
Not to change a lot from the past
Just to relive a moments few
To see the sun shining on that mellow face
To see the wind blow by the sterling black hair
To see you move with the tempo of tambourine
Just to see a smile and tell me that everything's alright

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She sells her body in the night
On the street just where God resides
The street filled with men of God in the daylight
But as the light fades away
Does God fade away from their hearts too
Like vultures eyeing dead meat
These men of God ogle her left to right

She often wonders of the judgement day
The day when she is called before God
And she can finally ask the question on her mind
And get the answer she has been looking for
Do these men of God love him or fear him?
If they love him how can their hearts change so fast,
If they fear him, well then how can fear dictate devotion?

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Are you still interested in meeting me
Away from the chaos and uncertainty of this world
Just as you promised before
To come running when I called for you
Just as you promised before

I have finally found the quiet
The peace we were looking for
Where it's just us and no one else
Where we can talk of everything and anything
Where I can braid your hair with the flowers
The flower whose fragrance you haven't smelled yet

Just wanted to know if you are still interested
In the utopia that we dreamt for us
Where we could live without a worry
We us is no longer a possibility but a reality
Would you come with me to a place just for us

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Running after the shadows of the past
As if trying to revive an old dead plant
Searching for the answers in the memories
To ease this meek beating heart

Maybe one day I will give it up
Give all up just to feel once again
Just to make new stories of glory
But till that day it's just me
Still searching for the answers in memories
Still trying to make myself relevant

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What was love like she asked
Like waking up from a long slumber
A sleep that kept you away from reality
Entangled in the mirage of freedom
Enslaved to the worries of loneliness

Like seeing your own reflection in a clear lake
Like flaws crept in the cracks of your soul
Have finally transcend into a symbol of your being
Like a hot cup of cocoa in the chilly nights of winter
Like being free in the true sense

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Lying on the bed
Along with the wrinkled sheets
And the pillows with stains of tears
No matter how much I wash them now
The stains will not go
That's how I console my heart
Knowing deep down, if I wash them
Your smell would be lost forever too.

It just feels like yesterday
When you were lying beside me
Talking about the universe and beyond.
The stars are all still there planets too.
Its just you who is missing
And i am left with
Wrinkled sheets and tear soaked pillows

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