Agonies flow through my bosom
Like the taste of red velvet cake
That lingers on my tongue
Glazed in the grief of the August rain
While I sip the hot chocolate
Seething with desires of the insane

A butterfly stomped over my heart
Withering away the cascade of hopes
Lustrous black eyes
Gave rise to revolutions
Wrinkled hands throttled pain
Memories are my only bane

Spring danced in the sunshine
Of last September
Longing for a kiss
Blue evaporated
From yellow paper sheets
Words have always conspired
To be a misfit
Wine stained glasses
Of midnight
Lips absorbed in chaos
The world is replete with riots
Of colour

Father played saxophone
On aunt's funeral
Lark's mockery of seasons
Have given rise to a colossal maze
The sea drained its shores
With salts of distress
While the mystic roared
With laughter
Steeped in the melodies
Of his mistress

Lanes wore silence
When my fingers traced
A lonely path in those lines
Of your palm
Where mysteries found a home
In your beaming smile, a crisis loomed
Tea spilled in the cusps of our hearts
Woe whispered, "Art of growing apart!!"

Birds sang in the sycamore tree
It was a lover's plea
You stood on the fragments
Of horizon
My feet were tied by the curse
Of Poseidon
Making me a wandering Odysseus
Stuck in the waves of blue

It's August
The sky is brimming
With shades of silver and grey
I am left in disarray
Mother bakes potatoes stuffed
With cheese and chillies
I skin them only to grieve
The salty taste of Achilles's grief

Metaphor sewn tunes
Of Ella and Grover
Still sweeps me off my feet
My tongue reeks of myth
That "Love is a bliss!"

My city lives in bits and pieces
While I savour the leftover dishes
Hungry midnights incite plight
Synthetic lights in my room
Makes me blind

Eyes wait in the shrine of belief
Just to meet the apocalypse
Your eyes exude
Sadness of honey-stained August moon
Is Autumn's eclipse
While hope mars my skin
I weave dreams
Drenched in only one question
"Where have you been?"

~Darling please let it be more
Be more~