You’re far

You’re farAnd I cannot touch youI am only left with words I want my words to touch youTo caress your soft skinI want these words to enter your beingLike I would, you besides me You’re far And I cannot hold youI’m only left with letters I want each consonant to feel youOne syllable at a …

Forgotten

It was as she never existedWords of love forgottenIntimacies shared now memorised in disdainHow in an instanceCould it all change Did she existOr was she an apparitionThat momentary interludeHearts distractionInterregnumBetween what wasAnd what is to come

Roadside Omelet

A two-egg roadside omelet with Ghee laden parathaHurriedly and with little graceDevoured with lustful impatienceA renewal feast for squabbling lovers In that moment of consummated blissThat roadside shack with unsteady chairs and plastic tableMore majestic than a state banquet in Windsor palace That doodh pathi tea thawing the frozen wordsOnce again two bodies satiated in …

Trekking

Through that installer darknessOf an expanding universeAs entropy limits to zeroLovers are lost, but not love itself The lonely search for hopeSome redemption, somewhereOne trudges one step at a timeThat firm granite slope - rock of permanence Timelessly you bearThe weight of many weary legsSilent witness to all has come to passAnd yet may unfoldOf …

Loess

Then you cameLike the river breaking the banksTo flood the plainsWith loess and lifeYou brought wordsOf loveAnd your taste in my mouthTo think of you Forever

Worried Brows

Your worried browsI cannot bearYour eyelids bearingA weightMore crushing than a thousand tonnes The screeching scale - unbearable fear All I want is your fulsome lips to smileLike that fresh spring leafOpening to warmly embraceThe sunbeamThe warm gift of all that is sublime

Besides me

All I want is you besides meYou nakedness laid proudA delectable feastFor hungry eyesYou soft curves touching me I want to discussNeither small mattersNor great Affairs of the stateThey’re of no importAll shall be forgottenBut this moment Not All I want is to feast on youYour naked timelessnessBesides me

The wind shall still carry the voices

They’ll silence the radioAnd the idiot boxAnd my friends one by one Soon they’ll turn to the birdsTo silence their chirpingAnd the whistling of the trees They’ll shut down the etherAnd lay siege on the electromagnetic wavesAll the channels one by one The birds and the trees?Ah yes, they too speak of loveOf freedomAnd the …

Reading dreams on eyelids

I wish with youTo Not count time - neither minutes, nor hours, not even daysAs the Earth spinsAnd night turns to dayAs the the blue bowl turns pitch blackBut joyous with the sparkle of timeless starsI wish to make love to you timelesslyRepeat the cycleWith the Earth spinning on its axisAnd the two of us …

A Japanese Dinner With ….

I’m so sorry my darling for all that surplus verbosityPhilosophy, history, and of course, the damned economyAll of which you listened to ever so patientlyAll those words, this and that unnecessary allegory So much, such unnecessary clevernessIf only one cud have cut through the chaseGot to the truthWithout the meandering thorough many courses of rawnessAnd …