Sunday, October 27, 2013

A Winter Night

A winter night invades me
Like you once did.

It draws me
Into a pool of radiant memories,
flooded with you.

As you surround me
Crowding my mind like compartments of a local train
You sink in my moment like spattered ink in paper,
Burn within me with the mild flame of my lighter,
Enter my ears with a Pink Floyd song,
Toss a coin with you on both sides,
Kiss me into a world where timepieces are kaput,
Walk out of my sleep from the fringes of a dream

A winter night invades me
And leaves me gently with unmingled madness

Like you once did.


(First published in Dance of the Peacock: An Anthology of Indian English Poetry)

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