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MY EYES
REFUSED TO BLINK
AFRAID OF MISSING
YOU
MY FIRST LOOK
AFTER TWO DECADES
AND MORE
YOUR FACE EMBEDDED
IN MY HEART
CAME ALIVE
SWEETHEART
YOU WERE THERE
LIGHTING THE DOORWAY
I SAW NO ONE
BUT YOU
THE CROWDED AIRPORT
WENT MUTE
AN AUDIENCE
TO THE SWEET MUSIC
IN MY HEART
THAT CAME ALIVE
A DEAFENING
CRESCENDO
MY EYES RESTED
ON YOUR BEAUTY
EVERY BIT AS IT WAS
SO MANY YEARS AGO
I SAW YOU LOOK
A BRIEF GLANCE
SEEING BUT NOT SEEING ME,
I SAW YOU SHAKE HANDS;
HUG SOMEONE,
BID GOODBYE,
YOU HAD PEOPLE WAITING,
I  WAITED FOR THEM
TO GO AWAY,
LEAVE YOU TO ME
YOU WALKED
INTO MY ARMS
UNAWARE
OF PEOPLE
WATCHING
YOUR CHEEK
TOUCHED MINE
IGNITING
THE INFERNO
THAT HAD TURNED
ASHES AGAIN
INTO RAGING FLAMES
MY HUNGRY LIPS
HAD TO MAKE DO
WITH A TOUCH
OF YOUR FACE
I SHIVERED
AS THE WARMTH
IN YOUR SMILE
PACIFIED MY LEAPING
ANXIOUS HEART
MY EYES TURNED
HEAVENWARD
IN GRATITUDE
YOU ARE STILL MINE.
I love you princess,
Like the leaves
love the dew,
That sits on them
Ever so gently
Reflecting the warm
Glow of the sun
Seven colors
Out of one ray
White light
You shine on me
I emerge
Seven different facets
You warm me
Ever so gently
Emotions finally
Flow like the dew
When the droplets
Get heavy
And make
The grass glisten
At my feet
My heart grows
Through the lens
Formed by your
Joyful tears
It burns
When those tears
Turn this lens rigid
With their sadness,

I love you princess
When you laugh
In joyful abandon
Like the spring
Formed by melting
****** snow
Caressing the timeless
Scars on ancient rocks,
Soothing them
Into curves
Those refuse to cut
My Bare feet
Tingling to life
As you breathe
Upon my neck
As I carry you
Gossamer
Light and pure,
Across
Worldly bridges
Into paradise.
This dull ache started
In the middle of my gut
Spreading
Like an oil slick
Did not spare
My bruised heart
And
Tumultuous brain
Coated
Like perishing penguins
In layers of black
Beside upturned
Prey
Both dying  
The same malady
Tormenting
Prey and
Predator

Your words
Trying to soak
This inky toxin
Resemble
Feeble attempts
To stop
This amoebic monster
Growing
Changing shape
Nevertheless
Spreading
To the far corners
Of a once clean
Calm picturesque
Ocean
Tranquility shattered
By Pipe bursts
Of random speech
That may take
Years to clean
Yet leave a mark

Our relationship
Pure
Until this spill
Dearest
I blundered
Overconfident
In love
And my ignorance
Your feelings
Sensitive
Like the corals
Tarnished now
I am trying
To clean
This unsightly stain
With my tears
And your
Understanding

I know your heart
Large as the ocean
Will soak up
My folly
Erase the blemish
Clear the water
That we may stand
Hands entwined
Like clown fish
And
Sea anemone
Inseparable
After our long
Painful
Separation
A Long time ago,
I was far from home,
Far from good food,
company
and familiar sights.
I was washing my bike,
Hoping for my neighbor's
sweet daughter
to come out
on her Balcony
Light up my day
with her sweet smile
My neighbor
My landlady,
Had a family of six
Beautiful daughters,
Who had no father
This churned my heart
I went soft for this family
But had no Intention
to ruin
Disrupt their peace
Nor interfere
In their daily lives
I kept my feelings
bottled in steel
but smiled
Good naturedly
at them all
and stood guard
against
any male that threatened
their gentle citadel
They treated me
with snacks
and their gentle
smiles like I was
the Orphan
and I was well fed
with my sacred
relationship
But their smiles
created pangs
in my young heart
which good breeding
stifled with iron hand
Until one day
I espied
my contractor
make eyes
at the oldest
This enraged me
Lit a fire
(I thrashed the man
Ah, the strength of youth
Knows no bounds)
into an inch of his life
till he begged
for mercy.
This fell on the ears
of my superiors
who in their enthusiasm
to please
their clients
had me transferred
2000 kms
from home
I waved goodbye
with tears in my eyes
my six angels
and their guardian
who had grown
to like me as well,
That day I swore
that no girl child
would come to harm
under my watch
without her will
and some times even
with her will when
her delicate youth
made her stray
into harms path
I would slay the dragon
of temptation
at the cost of
my reputation
among friends of
being a Casanova
I wear my disguise well
To Please God and Man.
O MY LOVE, COME WITH ME,
LET’S CLIMB THE MANGO TREE,
ITS GOLDEN FRUITS ARE RIPE,
FULL OF SWEET MEMORY,
LET ME LIFT YOU GENTLY,
TILL YOUR HANDS GET A HOLD,
THIS WARM ZEPHYR HAS MADE ME,
SO STRONG AND SO BOLD,
LET US CLIMB WITHOUT SCRATCHING
YOUR FLAWLESS IVORY SKIN,
MY LOVE WILL GUIDE YOU THROUGH
BRANCHES THICK AND THIN,
YOUR RAVEN HAIR CASCADING ON
TO YOUR NECK SO SLENDER,
SHINY NEW LEAVES OF THE MANGO,
SO DELICATE, AND SO TENDER,
SIT CLOSE TO ME ON A LOFTY BRANCH
TO HEAR THE SOULFUL KOEL SING,
LET'S SWAY WITH THE BREEZE
LIKE SOULS ON A SILKEN STRING,
MY HEAD ON YOUR SHOULDER
YOUR LOVELY FACE SO CLOSE,
SUN BEAMS DANCE ON YOUR LASHES
MY PRECIOUS VELVET ROSE,
YOUR FRAIL HANDS ENCIRCLE ME
LIKE CREEPERS HUGGING THE BOUGH,
YOUR WARM EMBRACE ENTHRALLS ME
TO KISS YOUR SHAPELY BROW,
YOUR SWEET FRAGRANCE INTOXICATES
AND AMONG THE CLOUDS I FLOAT,
LIKE A BUTTERFLY EMERGING FROM
A CATERPILLAR’S UGLY COAT,
WE SIT THERE FOR A LONG TIME
SUSPENDED IN SPACE,
I AM BUT A CONTENT SLAVE
TO YOUR HEAVENLY GRACE
LET MY LIPS LINGER ON
YOUR SOFT PETALS SOME MORE,
TILL I ETCH IN MY MIND,
EVERY BIT OF YOU TO THE CORE,
OH MANGO TREE WE NESTLE
IN YOUR MASSIVE ARMS,
LOST IN THE MYRIAD MISTS
OF ONE ANOTHERS CHARMS,
WHEN OUR YEARS ARE GONE ONE DAY
WHEN WE ARE AGED AND SPENT,
UNDER THIS GREAT MANGO TREE,
WE SHALL PITCH OUR FINAL TENT,
UNDER ITS VAST CANOPY WE SHALL LIE
LOOKING AT THE STARS,
OUR BONY FINGERS ACHING YET
TENDING TO OUR SCARS,
MY MIND’S EYE SEES YOUR WRINKLED FACE
SMOOTH WITH AN INNER GLOW,
SOFT AND BEAUTIFUL AS EVER IT WAS,
AND YOUR LOVELY DARK HAIR FLOW
YOUR FLESH AGAINST MINE
FEELS JUST AS YOUNG AND WARM,
OUR HEART BEATS MERGE
LIKE BEES FLYING IN THE SWARM
COLD TOMBS ARE NOT FOR US
NEITHER MARBLE NOR GRANITE,
UNDER THE LIVING MANGO TREE
FOREVER WE SHALL UNITE
OH MY LOVE, COME WITH ME,
LET’S CLIMB THE MANGO TREE,
YOU ARE LIKE ITS GOLDEN FRUIT,
AND FOREVER YOU WILL BE.
I fell in love
With you
You were made so
It was **** easy
I am
A mere mortal
Your eyes
Cast a spell
With their sparkle
Hard to avert
Your voice
Hypnotized
My ears
To listen
To the smooth
Ripples
On my soul
Your lovely hands
With their exquisite
Fingers
Were made for
Holding
Gently
Smoothing
My rough ones
Your hair
Formed a halo
Dark and lustrous
Around a full moon
Sacred idol
That I worshipped
Your soft lips
Turned intentions
Unsacred
Desire turned
To longing
At their redness
Your tongue mocked
My self control
With its tip running
Briefly across
Like a little flame
That set a fire raging
In my breast

For many years
I carried
Your picture
In my heart
Till a raging storm
Tore my body
Asunder
Casting me
Devastated
And forlorn
On an Island
Wasted and barren
Till your ship
Arrived
To my rescue
  
I fell in love
All over again
You were made so
It was **** easy
I am
A mere mortal
Your eyes
So gentle
Cast their kindness
Hard to resist
Your voice
Caressed
My heart
To beat
To the soft
Vibes
From your soul
Your lovely hands
With their knowing
Fingers
Were made for
Clasping
Gently erasing
My ravaged ones
Your hair
Formed a shelter
Glowing and silky
Around my own
Broken down face
That I worshipped
Your healing lips
Turned intentions
Sacred
Desire turned
To gratitude
At their fullness
Your tongue talked
My self control
Into returning
Firmly back
Like a little spark
That lit a warm flame
In my being
The kids want nooks and Kindle Fire,
The teenagers want Limos on hire,
College grads are busy on Tablets and I pads,
Laptops for moms and DSLR's for Dads!
This Christmas things are going awry,
Fettucine has replaced Mashed potato and gravy,
Hence Ol' Santa's gone really techno savvy,
He's exchanged his deer for a brand new Ferrari!!
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