FORGOTTEN LOVE : A BOOK OF POEMS - VII

CAN'T LET ME GO

You want to let me go

You want to lay our love to rest

Yet each time you try to bury

The intensity of this forbidden love

Your own mind beats you

At your own game.

Here we are now, what do we do?

WEAR & TEAR

You sin today, forget tomorrow

And call it philosophy

You wound me deep and then say

Let it go, life is a mystery

You hide in fear, your words aren’t real

What’s yours today is thrown away

For your mind it believes

You are the beginning, middle and the end

Of everything and I - a mere vehicle

To start when you please

To shut down when you’re not at ease.

But you forget- even a vehicle

Wears and then tears.

GONE

If I remember you again

It will be the little things I regret.

The impatience

The desperation

The intensity

With which I craved your touch.

Like the impermanence of all things

Our love too has wilted

Leaving behind no memory

of a fragrance.

That too I regret.