"It's startling how shadows can tell stories",
once you said to me nonchalantly.

Maybe that is why
I do not let the light in anymore.

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मेरा सबसे प्यारा ख्वाब हो तुम
मेरी हर एक सांस हो तुम
है प्यार का "स्पर्श" ये ,
या "स्पर्श" का प्यार हो तुम।

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Her burnt diary,
his dusty letters.

Few washed out feelings,
few tucked up emotions.

That's how they tried to cross out each other.

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Train me how to love,
punish me with your lust.

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Somewhere between
reading poems out loud
in the classroom and
becoming an undisclosable reason
behind somebody's poetries,
we all grew up.

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Carrying the darkness in her soul,
she wears the band of colors on her skin,
to illumine corners of the endless universe.

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Under the weight of few currency notes earned at the end of every month,

those musical notes once written on sheets of paper began to die away.

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Sweet arguments eventually turned
into dirty fights.

They kissed each other's demons all this time,
yet failed to kill them.

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One to forgive you,
two to forget you,
three to fall for you all over again.

No wonder shots of that fancy acid tastes as bitter as your love.

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You be the protagonist,
I will be your audience.
Perform that story from your bygone,
one line at a time,
and all I will do is; listen.

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