Hope

In the hope..

In the unfaltering, unmatched, optimistic furor...

You keep taking it all.

Forecasting a future sun,

You keep sleeping the restlessness over...

The ache rusts in the humid air...

Death of a song*

Your tired arms,

Do no justice to the bruise…

The fragments of a long letter,

Waiting in her mind…

The blasphemy…

The cure…

No awards for the untimely exit!

No heroics for the feat!

Soft steps lead on.

Death of a song…

& you can’t visit her at home anymore…

Thus*

If I were to have

All of you

At one time

How would a feeble moment

Be able to take it all?

Thus, separated,

Only this once…

I sing

Not in glee

Not in laughter

Not the very least in beauty

Thus, away

Takes He

You from me!

Who wants to

Have you

Consumed?!

Thus, I watch from distance

And you remain...

You restless thing you!

The tidbits of you...
Strewn carelessly here & there;

I shall calm thee,
But only one at a time

A 'no'

A 'no'.

No, I won’t touch those lips ever again

Almond eyes smile nevertheless

And no one sees the glee

Me trying to veil my ephemera

You do look like Mickey

'Were you supposed to change', u say!

'The way you look at me ?'

A 'no' again.

Same old, here we go...

The sadness not new,

Flinching in pain…

A different ache,

The intensity, all the same!

Past dithers,

Down the long winding road…

Pain takes you to places unknown,

& loneliness feels like an old tattered home

The valley strewn with bittersweet promises

Would you abandon me for reason’s sake?