There's no stopping true love

for what might you do
to stop true love?
say death,
and I would prove you wrong!

*lines inspired by Rehan's 'Elegy of a ventilator'...in one of my selfish vile moods I have thought to publish them and I feel terrible...

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Trust Me

Will you wander away with me?
On the journey of my life
On the wings of strife
I will take you through
enchanted lands
through mists and
through sands
Will you accompany me on my odyssey?
I'll give you my love to play
I'll give you my heart to stay
Will you wander away with me?
On the journey of my life
On the wings of strife.

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Delirious

The urge to write
has overtaken the birth of idea once again.
Today, I walk a strange land.
One with crispy golden brown edges.
The blur has settled
into an Uncanny equanimity,
uncharacteristic of a deranged mind.
A strand of silver unravels
and let's the breeze in.
The earth slips from beneath my feet
and flies by my side.
The warmth pouring upon my skin
from a blue undiluted sun
cherishes the end of survival,
the birth of happiness

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Pity this love

I don't trust anyone.
Not even me.

Then why should I trust my heart,
that wakes up with a start
every time you come around.
Why should I trust
the pulsating veins that bear its thrust.
why should I trust the hint of a smile,
in your eyes.
why should I trust?

The sweating forehead puzzles me now
and the shy burns that prickle your skin,
the way you roll your eyes
and keep up conversations, befuddles me.
What are these feelings
that come knocking in the middle of a sweaty dream,
come so suddenly that they scare me
and bind me in hours of fruitless apprehensions.

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The Sky Or My Reflection?

The sky above me is blank
and it's empty!

It's not like the beautiful sky
that saw me
over the waterworks
beyond the fields
The sky
that merged into the water
and created a vaccuum in space
towards the left side of the bridge.
and for a moment,
ended the differences between the mighty heavens and the lowly earth
and for a moment,
made me feel the unity,
the being and the nothingness.

It's not like that dark starry sheet
that mesmerized me on the mountains,
and made me wonder

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