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Taken

I let you break the door to my soul,
You savoured the flavour there in
Only you did,
But the broken door gave me pain
I let you, cos of the sweetened words
Issuing forth from your honeyed lips
I let you, cos those words tells of your love for me
And it enchants me,
It sapped me, and pets my stubborn soul

You kissed me passionately
With the girdle of your muscular arm all about me
You cooed words laced with rhythm like strains of Celine into my tender ear
I quiver like a leaf by a flowing river
As I opened the passage to my soul

You entered me, you took me
My painful moan tickles your shaft
You unleashed your manfulness over me
And I felt with all the nerve in my body,
Your shaft stirring the abyss of my hole 

You quiver, like you were epileptic
This time, I heard your groan-moan 
And a milky fluid from your shaft rained on my navel
Weariness engulfed my whole
I barely could raise a bone

I saw you walking to door,
Hoping a meal would follow your return
I made out of the bed to bath 
And await your coming
Alas! My wait was a waste

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Inconstant Beloved

At eventide,
Under the roseate glow
Of the receding evening sun
I sauntered down the road
To where my beloved dwell
Not far-off from my own abode

Fast by his threshold 
A low moan issued from his room
I made open the unlocked door
And so I happened upon him
Mightily taking his mistress
My eyes grew wide in shock

I made as if to storm,
But then stopped
Loosed upon me, an exquisite pain
Felt with every fibre of my being 
Soundlessly, I turned around 
Post-haste, homeward bound

In great dolour, I walked onward
Carrying my enfeebled feet
Heedless of the lowering clouds
Lightning flashing, thunder pealing
Yet I walk onward
And so the heaven opened 

Pouring, the rain
The entire me suffused with it 
Thus I quiver in frost, yet
I walked my leaden leg in the drenching rain
And so the inky blackness of the night cast over me

The evanescent rain went home
Afterwards , I gained my shelter 
All rain-drenched 
I laid, inert in my bed
With an unblinking stare,
My eyes cast into the void

Benightedly, I fell in the arms of Morpheus 
And I saw the door opened with a groan
Came in, my inconstant lover  
He drew nearer and sat fast by me
I couldn't cast a look at him
For scalding tears welled up in my eyes

He pillowed my head on his chest 
And nursed me in his arms
Touched his lips to my locks
Now patting, now caressing 
My shoulder, my tresses
His heart beating pitter-patter  

He held the nape of my neck 
And with an undertone voice
Whispered to my ear
Forgive my failings, my Inamorata 
You're a vision of beauty,
And you're my true love.

I harkened to the honeyed words
Falling from his silver tongue
My heart leapt 
Thus, hungrily,
I bathed his lips with sensuous kisses 
And I melted into his embrace.

I arouse from my slumber, behold! 
E'en the murky darkness of the night
Has passed away
And the sun, smiling in the heavens
But my heart, still heavy with pain
Alas! Who to bring solace to my lugubrious tear-stained visage

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Let Me Trust You

Bless me, oh bless me 
For my heart that I gave you alone
Bless me with a trust for you
If the heaven is black,
Don't tell me of it's ruddy glow
Don't tell me leaves are black,
Don't tell me goats fly
Let me see the realness of your utterances
Be pellucid as crystal
Be pure as spring
Reality heals, 
Even after a painful stung 
Bless me, oh bless me
With untainted reality of your words

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To An Angel

I cast my gaze heavenwards
To a place where the love angels dwell
I can't see you, but hear my words  
And my heart desires as well

She placed her heart on a platter
Not for me to consume nor to savour
But to keep ahold and cherish forever 
Yet, shower upon a sheer ardour 

Dear love angels hear my plea
Life changes like a quicksilver 
I know not tomorrow, though I see 
But I yearn to keep her forever 

Quell my worries, my fears too
I'm possessed with ardour
If I lose this jewel, I'd be a fool 
And ridded of heavenly favour
 
Would you rather plume out now
Perchance I'll see your celestial visage
As you clad in a holy alabaster gown 
And set your ear towards my message

Bless me with plenitude of wealth
So I can give her a paradise
And from all quarters of the earth,
Pluck her the treasures of life

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Regret

How, oh how did I get here?
Where was my head,
How did my leg walk me here
The soil of guilt,
A place not to visit 

I see no blood, 
Yet I feel pain, nay excruciating heart ache
That I could make the sun reset,
Or make the clock fleeting leg walk backwards 
My head would chose the path not taken
For my feet to walk.

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I'M Alone

Can mere words heal my soul? 
Can their counsel cure my sickness
Why does my lips tell to the ears
With no balm to my excruciating plight
I tell and tell again,
They listen and listen again 
As I say with an unseen rivulets of tears from the abyss of my weary heart

Little I know yesterday, 
That here I am alone
That only me bears my cross
No family, no friend
Even samaritans are long dead
No one would come by 
I live alone, and will die alone

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Grim Reaper

O! Grim reaper 
I know of your essence
Instrument of fate
But your bones should be weary and leaden
Your scythe should have slacked it's thirst for gore 
For numberless souls have you shuffed their mortal coil 
Yet, you hunger after more
Though you're blameless, a true-hearted servant 
You're blind to gold and silver
You're heartless; deaf to piteous cry
Alas! Your end is nigh
Ultimately, you shall be cast into a fiery mere
And humanity shall live forever more
Our flesh shall not wrinkle, neither shall our hair grizzled

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When Beauty Fades

I told my darling wife - you're my life,
You're beautiful and I love you
She gave me a dead smile
With her fathomless eyes filled with sadness 
Do you love me because I'm beautiful? - she asked
Yes my love, you're beautiful - I said
Suddenly, her eyes welled up in tears
My dear, why do you have a teary eyes?
She said; I grief the love that will die soon
Oh! My love, why would our love die soon?
She held my hands firmly, fixing her pretty glare into my eyes saying:
I may be beautiful like flower this morning,
But I'll wither soon at night 
I may twinkle like the stars up in the sky
But my spark won't shine till morning
I may be as bright as the noonday sun
But I won't shine through the murky night
I may be beautiful now to earn your love
But won't it die when my hair grizzled and break away
When wrinkle maps my face and my smile makes me uglier
When my eyes can barely see
How you've aged over time, yet handsome
When my bosom ruptures like airless bag
When my beautiful lips grow dry and pale
Would you still love me then
When my beautiful fade away into time

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Blood Moon

Beautiful, 
The roseate glow
Of the lunar moon
The light it shed
Touches the earth
O! a coruscating brilliance 
A touch of red,
It could mean love
Love?
Perhaps the moon
Has been speared,
Ran through with cold steel
Shedding scalding tears
In gory pool 
Sun, 
stars 
And other heavenly bodies
Have you done this?
Have you killed our moon?
Why does she glow in gore?
Will she breathe again?
Will she glow
To lit our inky night again?

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I'M a Woman

I left my parents behind,
My name change, my home too
I followed you on a life time journey 
I feed your hungry belly 
And your raging shaft too

I'm a woman, treat me right 

For nine months, 
I walk around the world
Carrying inside me another you
The little you, Bradley 
A bearable burden just for love

I'm a woman, care for me

Before anything,
You come first
In my mind, nothing else matter 
I breathe for you ,
And will die for you 

I'm a woman, respect me

Don't call me weak
Don't call me irrelevant 
I can make you sick
I can kill you too
My strength is mightier than a typhoon 

I'm a woman, my power is immeasurable