EPHEMERAL

 I never felt my heartbeat as deep as I do tonight. I can feel my heart falling for you, the black in my eyes has ended its search here. 

‘Is this love?’ I ask the heaven above.

And in my eyes, the black in the white is scintillating reflecting the white which is in the black above… And thus the heaven has given its consent.

The ephemeral glow now has now retreated and I can see the permanence in front of me- the ever-shining star… you. ✴

Though your glow is everlasting, this moment is ephemeral. And I don’t want to lose you. I want to embrace your light so that the darkness in this world doesn’t obliterate it. I want to even walk with you on the thorns, when life is being a bitch. The demons inside me yearn to affiliate with the saint inside you. 

Can you be mine? ❤

Gifts of Love

She was smiling at him through the water she had been admiring a while ago. Smiling at his tears,which flew as an evidence of the love that had once existed between them.
He was crying,seeing her drown in the same water in which he used to watch her anklets glow. He knew that she couldn't swim, she knew that he could, he knew that she wouldn't struggle and she knew that he wouldn't move.
It seemed appropriate that all this should end here. The place where it had begun and bloomed. It was April 15 when they had met for the first time. It was also the day seven years later when he had chosen to propose. This place and this day had witnessed the warm snuggles of the couple on the first few anniversaries. They also absorbed the lonely tears which later were shed on too frequent occasions. Both of them could never understand what had led them to this.
He could never recollect when did he stop enjoying their conversations. Maybe it was after the invitations to first office parties. Yes, he rembered her confused eyes as she laughed not realising it was she who was being laughed at. As he rose, the invitations flooded and her name on them gradually disappeared.
She remembered the solitude but couldn't understand when had she started preferring it. Maybe it was this time that Amit came to her life. No it wasn't a love affair. There wasn't any love in it. Only flesh. It did not matter whose lips they were that moved over her,she had long since become numb to it. She remembered being astonished at her indifference at his indifference when he found about Amit. That was his last night in the house. She filed for the divorce.
This meeting was an unexpected one. Before the divorce proceeding he had come to see the place which had taught him to feel and which would now numb him to everything that was to happen in the next few hours.
It was an accident. She had fallen in the water. Yet, it somehow felt as if he had pushed her and as if she had jumped herself. Was it true? Did they really not love each other? Both of them scrambled through their memories. They found longing, isolation and indifference. But no love.
He saw his teardrops fall to her and realised that love itself had given him those memories and hence could not be in them. He realised that it was love that had led them here and that it was love that was making him swim toward her.
She lay in his arms thinking of the memories. The painful ones , and all the new ones their love would now create for them. They laughed at all what their love had brought them and looked forward with sparkling eyes to all what it had in store for them now.