Lines between us

`
Creased across your brow
They bother me
Hesitant but rigid
With age
Lines
Now arduously diffusing
Onto your rosy cheeks
And from that corner
Of your eye
Like a dark nest
Fate
Scrambles them carelessly
Irritated
Lines
I had scribbled for you
Dishonest
Lie scattered between
Us, daring
To be crossed
`

Bengaluru, KA,

May, 2007

`
That night it rained.
Crickets cried hysterically
Pleading for more space
To cry.
I sat awake
And lost:

With so much to say
Still unsaid.
`

Bengaluru, KA,

May, 2007

Beneath the corporate froth

`
Days flow by
like a ripened River
Shimmering, but Still
indifferently watching
Familiar
Undated
Images
on its banks
and never bothering
to Capture any of them
only getting Slow and Heavy
with Gray silt
picked up Unnoticed
and now Drifting
Languidly
into a Murkier Still
`

Bengaluru, KA,

May, 2007