Some of the most enduring love stories are often the shortest. You meet. You part. There are a million reasons why.
But what these relationships leave behind are often impressions which are burnt into our beings. The awkward habit, the shameless bravado, the ribald sense of utter corniness - the unflinching freedom she accorded you just by her presence.
As times go by, and we accumulate relationships like trophies or seek people as refuges, these transient lovers are the ones who, in spite of their absence, have already given life its meaning, who make sure that whatever else might happen, or not happen, in life hereinafter, there's worth they've given which will never get lost.
I am a poet based out of India. My book of poetry 'Of Love and Other Abandonments' was an Amazon bestseller. My second book 'Of journeys & Other Ways to Get Lost' is just out. Both are available as Kindle on Amazon.
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Adventures in Two Worlds
Adrift (on parents and lovers we survive)
In Search of a God
Lovers as Witnesses
Things We Gather
A Legacy of Kindness
Coming to Your Side of The Bed
Replay - In the Drift We Will Find Our Certainties
Tracing Shadows On Your Back
And The Crowds Roared, As The Music Rose
Mr Hoskote, have you visited Kashmir recently?
Maybe, a Little Kindness
Replay - A Home as an Open Dream
I Like The Ordinary Life
A Sense of Her Tenderness
The Woman You See
How a Poem Finds Itself
Your Body is a Truth
What Stretches in Front
Letting Go (because I’m alive)
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