LIVING 

When did we meet to chart out new paths

With passion and warmth filling the hearts?

A heart that melts and softens with every look, every glance alike,

So full of love, that the entire universe likes,

Which ignores the shattering, tumultuous waves of despair

And listens to the melodious strains of endearment, without a care!

Eyes open, the reality sinks and we step out of illusions,

All this while we lived in delusions,

Screams from the heart cut through, blinding my eyes in a tearful fit violent,

Dreams burnt, passions froze alongwith my pain silent,

Fire sizzling across the horizon broke , 

Raging, ravaging, still quiet like the last embers, with no smoke,

Droplets of salty blood on your temple, try hard to mask the truth of falsehood that appear,  

While mine mask the pain and gore, flowing away as salted tears.

Don’t lament, nor cry upon

The day I’ m gone, 

Write my  epitaph without a moan or a sigh,

With a quill dipped in love when I die,

I won’t offer to leave my pain, or memory on the aching sands,

Instead would willingly go away nestled in old time's ailing hands, 

Only to snatch a few hours to just grow

With my love for you, before I finally go.

For broken hearts need to be mended,

With love to be annointed,

Must stay alive, although buried,

For love's story to be forever carried,

Even if short lived, love for sure is staying,

The thoughts may at times be betraying,

It must leave those marks and soft rosy spots,

Snuggled in the lap of intimacy, in the crevices of thoughts,

Even if it defies all other definitions of loving,

My heart leaves a trail on the sand, with a story inked in forgiveness and love called living!!!

©®Madhumita