Summer Romance

The season changed.
Like the past year
The city is burning again in thirty-nine degree
The way we burn in high fever...

Between us--one year passed;
One year in the darkness, in the light of our love--
---I feel like loving you again
---I feel like I am reborn.

Lucknow, India.

Significant Other

Candles burnt until midnight
Words poured our emotions
Waves were drawn between lines
And gifts were given in a quiet spring evening.

Mobile rang in summer...
the Pakistani playback singer appeared between us
We saw sunrise together.

In autumn, the Chennai boy arrived.
Holding hand in the first meeting...
---probably debunked his entire ideas about hand and holding;
You don't need to be bold for that;
You need to be genuine with your feelings.

Many faces and many words in this long journey,
But nothing like this...
No-one like my beloved
No-one like my significant other.

Lucknow, India