I promise to be good if you promise you'll be better
I promise to shut my eyes to the world if you open yours to mine
I will let it all go if you grab for my hand
I promise to fall asleep with my head on your shoulder if you don't wake me up
I promise to regret everyone else if you kiss me and mean it
My promises are empty if you don't have any

You drew me in
Like a deep dark secret
Encircling me with your tentacles
******* out my voice.
I couldn't speak what I felt
Like a vortex you wiped out
my thoughts.
I was empty and nothing
Without a voice or thought.
You wiped me out
Like a tidal storm
Brutal, violent, harsh.
With ruthless intent
you erased my every hope.
I was alone
Oh so alone.
Crumbling on the inside
folding in on myself.
Can anyone hear me?
My cries to get out.
Pain. Pure hot agony
searing my bones and mind
                    Help.
           Get me out!!
Falling deep into an abyss
Of nothingness and loneliness
nothing but space and time.
They have become my prison.

don’t you know that it was you
who like the Pied Piper
drew me here to
this cross road where
my ideas collided with you
in a state of bewildered joy
pleasant surprise
in spite of some inherent shyness;
a tendency towards introversion
would not stop
this flow of words
even as the cloak of anonymity
fell apart
like a bee finds the nectar that it is due
Stranger, i found you.

- Vijayalakshmi Harish
    12.02.2013
    Copyright © Vijayalakshmi Harish