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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

How do I embrace this city which I love?

How do I embrace this city which I love?

In the mornings of quietude 
I quietly dismember
because my heart breaks 
seeing it's beauty.

I cannot comprehend my life 
without it's lights,
it's early mornings of love-making 
with my senses,
nor it's insistence not to be 
without me.

I see it's inky night 
reflecting my despairing soul,
and know how desperately
we both need to get lost 
in this space  
and never to be found.

But we both belong to others 
more than to each other,
and we know our space in this world 
to be merely an illusion, 
to teach us
how to leave each other 
even whilst in love. 

(Started in Bombay, finished in Goa)

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