adVerse

 

There’s a world between you and me

Stair cases, errands, rat races, daily grinds

A word between you and me

It could have been ‘Us’ - But it lingers in the confined independence of you and me

Like a lion in a sanctuary?

There’s a tether between you and me

Interdependence..it could have been a bond

It could have been beyond…

But it hovers around the promise, like it defines it premise.

There’s a sentence between you and me..

Not a quote, nor a charm - not even a worded punctuated form.

Life sentence perhaps? Like a term that needs to be served.

I try to rise beyond this in between..

But you my mind - cannot be minded. 

So I gauge the depth between you and me..

The one that nothing can fill.

Or ‘No Thing’ can fill.

It’s silly how there’s nothing between you and me

So should’d we merge into one?

Ah there..now there’s a myth between you and me..

A real one - this myth. That’s the irony!

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reVerse

 Another day melts into the dusk

On an unknown countdown

I look through the curtains of my cozy bedroom 

Through the layers of the goose down comforter 

That I am Tucked under

The room lights up in tender warmth from the lamp on the night stand

The body slipping into the lap of comfort 

But there’s this soul that fidgets

Unable to settle in this scenario 

It peeks into the dark

A dark that only souls can penetrate wearing the correcting lenses of intuition.

The life yearns and how -

Beyond the warmth of this worldly setting,

Beyond 1000 count sheets and satin pajamas

It craves, this silly soul , to venture into the openness 

Over the earth, under the sky

Wrapped in the unevenness of the grass pricking my back

The chill of the summer breeze grazing my body

Numberless stars gently spreading their glimmer

That catches the moisture of skin

Making it shimmer like silk.

It craves perhaps for something that transcends the shallows of the world

Something that speaks to me in fluent caring 

Making me say I am in Love

Like it is a place to be, a pretty peaceful place

Making me swoon in that place- feeling a Bliss that my cozy bedroom eludes.