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Jack paid a visit
to our township overnight
leaving his white frost
I’d rather sleep when it’s sunny
And wake when it rains
I’d rather trade all my new clothes
For the ones already stained
I’d rather watch people from a distance
Than get in their way
And I’d rather be the one leaving
So all others could stay

Take air from my lungs
And give flight to the birds
Take sight from my eyes
And leave me with words
Take dreams from my heart
Contentment to bleed
But leave all of your nightmares
They are safer with me
 Jul 2021 Shruti Atri
Rupal
Central
 Jul 2021 Shruti Atri
Rupal
Everyone knows you are not with me.
I prefer that they believe so,
This way you become everything,
I taste you in every meal,
i add all of you to everything I do, you shine in my word and we savour each other in aloneness in your being the centre of absence.
 Jun 2020 Shruti Atri
lX0st
This, the abyss
No one warned me about
Where imminent fevers
Cannot be sweat out
And sanity’s good side
Turns one cheek too late
In centripetal orbit
Eluding escape
 Jun 2020 Shruti Atri
Rupal
Own nothing,
Owe nothing,
that adds upto
Everything.
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