When I said
stay,
I meant
run free
within my reach.

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Somewhere, a mouthful of stardust
collapses into little clouds of silence.
In this darkness, my arms extend
toward your shrinking shadow
like pine needles on lonely hills
await the touch of soft moonlight.
I open my hands and cup my mouth,
your breath rustles within me
in a storm on scale five.
The roof over my window collects
the nightly downpour dancing
in a cuplike dent at the far right corner.
This silly symphony of wet midnights in July,
of the mating of frogs and the bleeding sky,
of insects trilling and moments that fly,
so full of sounds stark against
the empty bed and your coarse pillow.

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N O I S E

On evenings like these,
your absence in this city
is only a lot of noise
and no music.

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/LOVE/ LETTERS

It may be how being homesick feels like,
that which makes old alphabets
on letters bloom wet,
every time I read your handwriting.

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I fold my universe in sheets and sprinkle
what would pass off as stardust in the
spaces between my insufficient words.
All of this for your love for astronomy.
And since you're so far away, I roll
incomplete moons under my tongue
for several nights at a stretch,
awaiting your return.
The hardworking poplar leans
in a yellow light these days
and sunflowers beam like your smile
in the summer of 2014.
I imagine you—
a tired bird on the westbound,
one hand dropped lazily along the flank,
the other grabbed on to a pivoted handle
amidst weary straphangers at six o'clock.
I imagine you—
returning home spent to check your mail
for undiscovered stars, moons, and planets
all enclosed in these letters I write to you.
I love you.

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It was a blind beginning
Messy curl hairs and beardy face met blindly
Carrying nervousness, fidgety fingers
May be it's their new innings
Travel with you for the first time with little hesitation
Adrenaline rush
Heartbeat faster , running faster with no competition
We were stranger but feeling secure
Feels like connection is not from today but from before
No proposal no question
Without yes or no, something sparkle inside
We hugged as stranger but not actually
And I kissed him so randomly
Time came to say "bye"
But we exchanged heart with "hii"
He dropped me back but taken something from my heart
It's still with him , securely, in his heart
Blind date started but ended never
'cz messy hair met beardy face to be with forever

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YES

Yes
the room here is small and stuffy
and yes
I stay here
with upheavals of grief
and furore of pain
and yes
the ceiling has exposed a corner
of this room
and yes
you seep in along with the stars
on a full moon

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Ha ab jo pyar ho hi gya hai tumse
To tumhari ye narazgi bhi meri
Or tum bhi ab mere...

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#shriyash
ख्वाहिश बस इतनी सी है
तुमको जब जब भी याद करू मै
तुम हर उस वक्त महसूस करो मुझे

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of my soul,
breathe in my lungs,
blood in my capillaries ,
AV node of my heart
The One whom I can't capture
but having endless memories.
You just like beacon having
extra cookies and candies
My irreplaceable part But
remember you have my heart.
You are the part who
completed my jigsaw

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