LOSING YOU IN REVERSE

The count of your footprintsKept decreasing on the sandAs you ran ‘less away’ from me with every step,My eyes un-blinkedMy heart gulped the beatsAnd every tear felt little warmerCrawling back up in my eyesThen I had you in my arms Un-kissing me – Goodbye. I felt the wind un-blowing I saw the birds flying backwards…

Fly Away

Time to cut loose

Bend. Stoop. Spread. Unfold. “Do when you are asked”, you were told. Strip off. Sink in It’s not your job to do the thinking. Obey. Sacrifice. Follow. “You’re not allowed to spit out, Just swallow!” Needy, Fragile, Dependent, You were taught so, so you intent. Caged in social prison Handcuffed by traditions Blindfolded with obligations…

PUPA

Staring from the eyes Fell lonely a long backHounding back the dreamsand lost trackConsoling the sulking soul of his own Somewhere in between The meat and bones, Pressed shoulders Hung among the dead bodies Clueless A part of million tragedies In a crowd alike, his lips Are mute like Woven pupa, Searching courage lost in sand…

If they felt it wrong too

PeepingFrom behind the window fencesWitnessing his flimsy defensesMy slowly drowning eyeballsMy flickering visionMy zipped up jaws.I didn’t know my nameI didn’t know his eitherI was an innocent toddler Didn’t even learn to speak By then. While they were all laughing except him. From a very little by then That I had learnt I should’ve clapped…

You’re a story being told

You are a character of the story that is being told by someone sitting at a place beyond the reach of your limits beyond the past, the present and the future in the parallel time, by someone who doesn’t know you who has not seen you but been with you through and through because you…

MOON’s LOVEgiri

A primitiveImmature loverCaged in silver parenthesisOften inoculated with antidotesto cure loneliness is wearily but steadily Falling in circle since forever, His hollowness is heard in reverberating pang His infinite sorrow is a poof elapsed from existence and his devotion is a plump for us. He – A mediocre A constant stalker is in love with…