My thoughts find their way to you
The way homing pigeons find their way home.
Even when I don't mean to,
Inevitably, I find myself thinking
Sweet thoughts of an even sweeter you.
Let's have a drink together
Share a few heady sips
To compete with the giddiness you make me feel
Look into each other's eyes
And try not to shiver too hard
Or swoon, from the intensity of it all.
Let's have a drink together
And steadily blur the edges
As we attempt to use words
Even as our souls speak volumes already
In a language older than time.
Let's have a drink together
And let the night take us under its wings
Two creatures with twin flames in our hearts
Drawn helplessly to each other
Like magnets of desire.
In the light of day, when all things are abuzz, it's hard to feel anything at all. I work, I reply to mails, I reply to mails, I eat when my tummy rumbles, and I have a catnap when my head aches. But in the darkness of dusk, when I'm all alone, and everything is quiet, it's impossible not to feel my heart ache.
Feelings
Do you sometimes wish
That like the vampires of pop culture,
You had a switch for your feelings
To turn them on and off,
As easily as you do the lights
Just blessed darkness when your feelings are off
Safe, peaceful, silent.
And stomach-churning chaos when your feelings are on
Intense, painful, arousing.
Like the vampires of pop culture
(Yes, them again),
I'm afraid I feel my feelings too strongly
At any given point in time,
Just seconds away from bursting into flames
From the smoldering heat of my emotions.
There's one battle I lose
Every single time
Every single day
And that's the battle not to think of you
Oh, how hard I try
To push you away
Give you some space
And fill my mind with something else
But you know my mind
It's always had a mind of its own.
And so, there you are
Stuck like glue
In the carpet of my conscience
Bound to every thought
And every sigh
Sometimes in the foreground
And sometimes in the background (thank God for that!)
But always there.
Always.
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