Sarcasm

Fry those bottled emotions

Warp it with words

Sauce it up with sarcasm

And with a sly smile,

Munch away, mundanely
Thoughts thus perfected 

Far from focus

In the dark delights

Of a shadow that was me

Pather Panchali

I ran across the fields

To the tune of the humdrum

For a glimpse of you

I stand in awe, as you go past

Without a second glance,

The black smoke remains

As memoirs of a shared presence

And the void that you grew

There's a sense of pain

of longing and displacement

In you, I seek the train

of my thoughts, and my dreams

That led me to you

Context: Pather Panchali' /Indian Railways

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And all that is left of the winter

Is the yellow parchment 

No words, a tune rather

Half done, as your smudged eyes

Blurred.

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No more pretensions

Your legs are the stems 

Of a yellow daffodil I once drew

My charred lips seek your scar

And consumed with lust

In you, I find the perfect desire

..

We met upon the drunken words

Only for the silence to drown us.

Now,in you I seek an escape,

An intoxication for my hollow passion

You

Trapped inside your letter-box

I am the half eaten moth 

That would blithely share the light

And you - my nicotine filled cigarette 

You take my breath away, everyday 

In secret, while our shadows play

Not for love, but a silent death-

My final lover who mocks me in whispers 

Not in contempt, but a painful reminder 

And yet, bluntly you call me an animal 

I nod sheepishly, in my stripped pajamas

Without you, only words fill up my paper cup

With you, silence shall serve the poison

Dandeli

In your eyes I saw

The depth of our shadows

Not grey,but colours

Jallianwala Bagh

And that's all that remains of us-

The bullets that bore no name

Stuck on the dilapidated walls