I
Let's go back in time
When we dreamt about
Overtaking heavens
And killing gods
II
I bleed
And this damned hope
Stitches the wound
Preparing
Waiting...
III
Read to me some poem,
Will you
It has been a long day,
Let the soothing words
Allow me to rest
In my decay
IV
this morning I saw an evergreen
alive with flickering lights
my heart
for fireflies
moved in the morning dark
dipping in and out the tree
I couldn’t believe
as if in a fairytale
my soul
lost in time
is now awake
after a long frost
V
a sapling stared at the rising vine
around an old wood
suffocating-- she thought
and prayed to be never bound
seasons passed before
she sensed the touch
resigned-- waiting to be smothered
but it was a liana embracing her
realizing
she let herself be engulfed in love
VI
the poetry soaks
my pain
there's little left
i'm afraid
VII
I revealed the flaws
Of this universe to
You — mesmerized, now
Limitless. Your walls
Destroyed,
We fled into the void
VIII
Your soul desires
to burn alive
And fill this world
full of light
The enchanted fool
looking for meaning,
baring
To a universe older
than time
Yet you spend another day
at office,
in your home,
filing taxes,
thinking
You are not meant
For this life
IX
Imagine my love
A warmth
Of sun
Consuming
Possessive
A violent storm
Sometimes
A calm sea
Devotion drenched
In silence
Of you
For you
X
The red of gulmohar
petals so vibrant
they fall