Love in the Interlude

 

Love is as love was- Brief

Time is as time was- Brief

Memories are as memories were- Perpetual.

Drag the reference of my previous lovers,

A blank sheet.

Life adorned with you.

All the machine guns and the jhumkas

has uttered your fair face.

As scared as the dawn of my love

the interlude is vast.

I stay non chalent

between grabbing me tight one night

and then-

No phone calls for weeks.

Come compare me to the ruins of 500 B.C

A promise as promise should be- Regretful.

To hold you when you are drunk, broke 

and do not love me anymore.

Many decades.

Many stories.

Thanks for the tortured hearts healed

and empty souls refilled.

In tea leaves and in clouds

In kaddish and in howl.

Ink stains fading out and alcohol dropping off.

But, years will calm me down.

I assure you, the Tagore songs, the tears and

those passionate kisses

wont fall sick.

I assure you the permanence of my love.