"essence"

"Essence"

She asked,
"Why do you always smile?"
to which I said,
"How can anyone look at you and not smile."

I returned home every evening
to feel her warmth in the cold nights,
like all thousands of birds did.
As she was like the gravitational pull eclipsing moon,
making me come back for more every time.
Breathing her insecurities, I woke up most nights.
Keeping her pious love hostage in my ribs,
so I did not have to live without it, ever.

Crawling under her skin to know every inch,
I tasted the sap of her sorcerous beauty
which invoked a new life in me, a new fire.
I discovered poetry in the darkness of her hair,
while she danced in her own element in the monsoon.

Blessed was her heart with divinity &
with the nerve wrecking desire of mine,
I took hold of her & said,
"I would take zillion times more to wait for you."

Scribbling my name on her naked back,
a string of questions dawned on me:
Whether in that instant was she solely mine.
Whether she cried in the nights taking my name.
Whether she remembered the way how my hands knew all her curves.
Whether she revisited the contours of our memory lane.
Whether it ached like the shards of glass in her heart.

For this affable commonality of souls,
You I hoped for & us I prayed for.
But who knew, this Love of ours was a paradox!
#mukulsinghbisht