`
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
`
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
