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Lalit Kumar Mar 29
There are words I never speak, yet they echo in my mind,  
Like whispers of a love unclaimed, a bond undefined.  
She stands there, untethered, a dream I cannot chase,  
Yet every thought of mine finds solace in her embrace.  
  
I send her verses, the echoes of my soul,  
She reads, she smiles, yet never takes the role.  
She says she won't be mine, yet she never drifts away,  
Like the moon that lights my night but never meets the day.  
  
And I wonder—what am I to her? A fleeting thought, a gentle phase?  
Am I the endless sky she gazes at, or the home where she stays?  
Like Amrita’s heart torn between the vast and the known,  
Am I the dream she admires or the shelter she calls home?  
  
I wish she knew the weight of my silence, the storm in my chest,  
The longing in my veins, the ache that never rests.  
But love is cruel, it lets you feel but keeps you blind,  
It makes you yearn for presence, yet leaves you behind.  
  
Could I be both? The sky she soars in, the roof where she hides?  
Could I be her wildest journey and her safest side?  
Or am I just a whisper in the wind she lets pass?  
A beautiful pause in a story never meant to last.  
  
If only love required no words, no confessions, no plea,  
If only hearts could hear what lips never set free.  
But love, my love, is a tale of what never aligns,  
Of longing without answer, of unsaid yet felt signs.
This poem captures the dilemma of unspoken love, where one soul longs to be both the vast sky of freedom and the sheltering roof of comfort for another. Inspired by the contrast between Sahir and Amrita’s love and Emroj’s steadfast presence, it explores the pain of being deeply connected yet never fully claimed. Love is often a paradox—where one wishes to be everything to someone who may not even see them the same way. The poem leaves open the question: Can one ever be both—a dream and a home? Or is love always destined to be an imbalance of longing?
Lalit Kumar Feb 28
The match trembles between my fingers,
a silent war in a room too still.
Smoke or breath—what matters now?
The weight of nothingness, the weight of her.

She lingers like an unfinished line,
half a whisper, half a wound.
A memory blurred at the edges,
but sharp enough to cut through the dark.

Did she ever love me, or just the idea?
A boy with dreams too heavy to hold,
an engineer of castles in air,
a builder of futures that never came.

Outside, the night hums with indifference.
Inside, I weigh the lighter’s click
against the echo of her voice—
soft, pleading, unbearably distant.

I could fade with the smoke,
or chase the sun she once pointed to.
Between life and her,
I choose to breathe.
Lalit Kumar Feb 27
I.
Dreams carved in stone,
shattered like glass,
echoes of effort—
lost in the past.

II.
Steps I climbed,
only to fall,
hands outstretched,
no one at all.

III.
Pages of plans,
drenched in doubt,
words unwritten,
time ran out.

IV.
Bridges I built,
burnt by fate,
stood at the edge,
a moment too late.

V.
Eyes that searched
for a flicker of light,
but shadows danced
through endless night.

VI.
Yet within the ruins,
a whisper remains—
failure is written,
but so is change.

— The End —