Pursuit of Poetry

On a day like today
When my arms want to give away
Feet hurt with immobility
Sleep rules every emotion
Every emotion becomes a drag
Every moment is worse than a wait
For unrequited love
For the day seems to extend
Beyond my want to breathe.
On a day like today
I wonder
If you can hear me loud and clear.
Can you?

Yellow

Breathe in (high)
Breathe out (low)
Under the laburnum tree
I open my eyes
To a path of yellow
Breathe in
Breathe out.

Streaming

And I think I’ll just wait
         While my palm digs into my cheek
  And the bright red chases the light red
         While streaming some song on youtube.
And my feet have gone numb
               While holding the same position
   And all morning I’ve blinked a gazillion times
            While I wait for maybe just one sign from you?

Cold Storage

Maybe if I
Gulp this down
Without water
And hold my throat
Hard enough
Strong enough
All that has been
Thought of as digested,
Forgotten
May stay in
And not jump out at me
Most unexpectedly.

Untitled

Have you ever been there
10,000 phone numbers
Listed on your phone
But not one to call?
Sitting idle on a Sunday afternoon
Hoping life would happen to you
But it doesn't?
Realising everyone but you
Is celebrating something
While what you are celebrating
Is your independence or
Is that lonliness I sense?
Well this is the price you pay
For being bull-headed
Perhaps my mother would say.
I guess she's right!

Closure

Part I
Dreamy even while I'm awake
Eyes shut tight with unrequited sleep
But yet restless & insomniac
The whirlwind in my head
Moves south.
Heart break city
Heart ache city
Lost!
Like I promised I'd be
And then it rains.

Part II
All I had to do
Is turn around
Look at your sleeping face
While I stayed awake
Nursing my aching heart
With all that love
Love from yore
Love today
And it rains
While I silently drift
Into slumber.

Part III
We pass through
Places we held hands
We said goodbyes
We touched
Because there was
Nothing more we could do
No words could express
What you and I felt.
Every place
Was marked by memories of you
Every memory of this city
Is marked by you.

Chronicles of Two ~ I

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Once again they set off     Jumping walls   Sitting with their feet dangling Into imaginery waters.    Wet toes, Longing hearts     Yearning for nothing less than the moon.    What's between you and me Is beyond us she said.   They both agreed. Holding hands     Reaching out to the sky    They dreamt of non-existent swings While they rode to nether lands. Like children       like lovers   Like borne out of each other Sharing bliss sharing sorrow Sharing hurt sharing sweetmeats out of nowhere    Wishing for nothing less than the moon       They rode to nether lands.