""You are my BEER

And I am addicted to you DEAR

I always want you NEAR

So as to wipe your TEAR

And whisper in your EAR

That you've got nothing to FEAR

As long as i am HERE""

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Like a water drop
that slips down from
one of your curls
onto your left foot,
just after you bathe,
I wish to fall —

from you to you.

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THE INTERMISSION

Sometimes, I take the bus to the airport
to stand in front of the arrival gate and
wait. I scan the faces, one after the other,
and reject: no, this one isn’t you, this one
doesn’t have the same curls, this one lacks
your gait, this one’s attire is too flashy,
this one can’t seem to wait. In between
two flights, there always seems to be that
half an hour, when the arrival gate turns mum,
when I hear no advancing footsteps come.
I call that the intermission — when the waiting
chauffeurs scramble towards the loo & I stay put,
steadfast, not daring to move. Not daring to cross
the departure gate on way to the loo, not daring
to once again — right there — stumble into you.

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प्रेम 'पर'
कविता नहीं लिखी जा सकती
प्रेम 'में'
कविता लिखी जा सकती है

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you are the reason
that my desires
to escape
changed
to stay.

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My words
last longer
if they are
about you.

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But once the walls fell,
There was nothing left to extinguish.
No flame between us,
No love between blankets,
No memory of how we got here.
When the floor beneath us went missing,
We turned stranger to the arms that once
felt like home.

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A midnight foreplay
of wine and words,
seems seductive.

Your whispers
trickling down
my pinna,
would moist
my neck.

Yet your
warmth would ripple
shivers across my
bare bones.

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My brain
took a day off
and my heart
started weighing
love and logic.

Somehow,
the scale with
no love
was heavier than
the scale with
a lot of logic.

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I am a total mess.
As messy as it can get.
Non aligned, non orderly.
Wild, whirly, fluid, free, chaotic, cluttered.

He, a blank space.
Containing a universe yet blank.
All absorbing, all coherent.
Calm, composed, solid, set, organized, open.

I know no possession, he only embraces.

I think it's a match.

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