Just words

Just words

Monday, May 13, 2024

Found you

Yes, I think I found you.
But alas!
You are still searching
for yourself.

Missing

Missing you has become 
like breathing.
It's that natural and essential.
Also because that's all I'm 
left with.

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Can't say

Can't say I haven't seen you.
For I saw you just yesterday
In the stolen glances and flushed smiles of 
Two kids in my lane.
Or when I heard you in a few chords 
That drifted in with the rain, one afternoon
Through my window.
Or when I felt you in the flowing steps of some unknown dancers.
Or when I found you in the words of strangers
Who have lost their hearts, broken or given away.
Or in their joy when they got it back again
Whole and healthy.
I saw you in tears of shared laughter 
Brimming with love.
In shy, half smiles and smirky giggles.
And that time when I saw you in a clear night sky,
Fireworks danced with shy stars.
I saw you even in lightning.
In sudden storms and roaring waves.
In falling cherry blossoms and rustling green canopies.
And in the universe that houses in this head.

But alas! 
Can't say I have met you either.

Saturday, January 27, 2024

Cherry

"Why are you so fragile, mon cherie!"
So said he, after breaking me.

Musings of a rainy day

What is this need to be tethered but free?
Is it selfish, unrealistic or tad narcissistic?
Or just how love actually should be.

Journey

and so they shook hands 
and wished they would meet again---
Chatty travellers.

Cherry Blossom

I saw you on a cherry blossom day.
You were just as radiant as fragile.
And just like that you vanished.
Were you magic?
Or just a fleeting wish
Of my springing heart.