I found our lives on a 5 minute 26 second video It took me back To the pain I’ve kept, neatly stacked, somewhere In my soul In there, you are still 25 I am still 24 Every fibre screaming of young, desperate, love Us against the world You’re coursing through every cell Even decades later How alive you seem ...
Love left me at 24 Didn’t come back Till many years later Or did it? Was that lust? I got confused Having been alone for so many years after The lines blurred Love had evolved And I hadn’t noticed I still believed in connecting from the heart So lust left As it must when confronted With an unyielding spirit ...
I thought I knew me Till I saw you At midnight, wrapped around her waist Dangling, at the edges, All woolly and warm I shouldn’t have interrupted Should’ve stayed, politely away Talked after You know been more civilized Instead, I sauntered over Asked her what she was doing with you And did you know we were together Looked surprised ...
At the bottom of the cup the tea leaves swirl As I lift up to drink Some days Are harder I keep searching for you In places we never meet Absentmindedly The heart is foolish Yearning for things It cannot have The mind even more so Rationalizing The heart’s every desire I should compromise Be rational Practical Less stubborn and ...
you said, “we should think about this….” cos, it’s all wrong this thing, we’re doing with each other and that it is this should mean less than what it does right now but why does it feel like more? why does it feel like everything and nothing at the same time why does this make me feel like me ...
There’s no one to save you from yourself just you, No twist in this tale, no dramatic beginning or end all that, has come, and gone what’s left are the imprints, of broken promises much of which you’ve made to yourself of how things are going to be, that perfect everything, that was supposed to be your life, if ...
Sometimes love Comes in fits and starts Sputtered, at night, Raw, unedited, fierce Touch and word struggle To convey the heart and its unruly needs Then during the day We go about our business Rarely, a word between us, As if the night, These nights Didn’t exist Some days, I look at you, And all I can think of are ...
Is it enough these silences, will they, tell you, what words will not say, will you, divine the meaning, of these wordless words, and will I remain, with these silences, forever…. will you be there when I cross over? with your hands on your hips and that crooked grin longing eyes and bone crushing hugs those moments we took ...
You still walk to gods In far flung places Take long tedious journeys With live chicken in the boot To set free at kovils And pray each day That I find someone Who will love me You would think They would take pity These gods on your aching bones and tired soul I am surprised nonetheless You find energy ...
You need not go Into that darkness alone I’ll come there, with you Here’s my hand Take it There’s no other way You’ll feel less alone I’ll go into that darkness alone You needn’t come there with me Don’t hold out your hand I won’t take it There’s no other way With you here – I feel more alone ...
The air, that night, Effusing a mix of frangipani and grass Was intoxicating The moon, in its fullness, Hanging despondent In a midnight black sky Radiated a mild glow On the landscape Though it has been many years Many, many, years Since that night of my blossoming love When I close my eyes I still see you In that light ...
Balmy island nights, frangipani wafting through the air, monsoon showers falling from the sky, screeching down, amidst angry thunder, and lightening, tearing through the clouds, running, spiraling, downward towards the sun battered grass, afraid of what is to come we watch each other, circling, like the birds, speak or stay silent, speak or stay silent, SPEAK OR STAY ...
When you write sweet nothings On her Facebook wall Like a giddy teenager Smiley faces and exclamation marks Completely unsuited to your sullen ways It’s like rubbing salt into the wounds You’ve created in my heart Any scrap of affection she throws you devour, ravenously falling over yourself in comparison you deal with me in measured doses careful and calculated ...
(photo credits: http://www.blacksaturdaybushfires.com.au/) Only too familiar With destruction Both natural and man-made I watch the fires burn The bombs, the tsunami I have seen them all on my soil No fires though- not yet It is the spirit That dies Embers speeding Dancing on dried grass Feeding and growing moving at will Taking in everything in its path Yellow, ...
Space between us stretch wider as days pass fading like photographs the moments blur I’m smiling relieved to be away from the confusion and pain the toxic elixir that took over my life You Sashikala Premawardhane This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
You must think its over Now that you have Let. Me. Go. And you’re right about that It is over So you should stop asking Mutual acquaintances how I’m doing It’s embarrassing I suppose you must think I’m devastated And maybe I am, just a little Every time I remember you that is Which is not that often now ...
I walk into the darkness Of this year-end night The sky invisible Pressing down on the Alleyways Of the mind Unbearably solid Rock like This fixedness I am struggling to change Fights against me I am bursting From within All this chaos Won’t change By sipping of champagne at midnight Ringing in 2014 Sashikala Premawardhane This work is licensed under ...
I don’t love you anymore you said and I stood there not quite sure I heard you right what do you mean? I ask needing that split second, before you respond to wrap my head around the idea of you, falling out of love, with me I didn’t really need to ask I asked anyway maybe, I hoped, if ...
Is there something love can still do? I ask, smiling skeptically he’s offering me his heart, tormented by feelings, raw and new his confusion is evident, at my question in response to his offer to love me Perhaps I’ve been loved enough to know how love changes everything, takes control, breeds carefree abandon, trust until there is no ...
