doubt/redoubt

The soul of romance
Eventually droops
It is finally pooped
With all the exertion
From keeping up

It would always aspire
For higher things
To fly away to the realm of wings
And an effortlessness of feeling

But say human beings
And you don’t know the half of it
Robbed of reason, calm and peace
Until love is found when
It moves us mainly in the panting


Look they are
Desperate for love
All over the roads
So desperate
Through the windows
It shows and
In the public gardens
By the water bodies it overflows
And seeps through the hearts
Of all and sundry
My city has a hungry soul
And is also a flesh eater




Your love
In silence
Is violins
When you come
And sit
next to me

when you
touch my hand
in the sea it is
a symphony of waves
and the sight of
dolphins diving

your love is under
all the streetlights
in this city
in the morning
it is the sun
through the trees

deep in the passages of time
the substance of youth
beguiling passion past
the ravages of time
Your name echoes
through the valleys