You Wont Join Me?

Then I shall lie here

Watching you work

And you shall catch

The moment

Askance

When I shall

Finally fall asleep

My eyelids

Closing like the sun

Sinking in the sea

Don't you smile

Smile to yourself then

Alone

Forget this cumbersomeness

My beloved

Join me

Join me now

Look up

Look up!

This coldness 

This coldness we both love

Is so sensual, so feminine

And this blanket?

Our buffer, a fence

Bifurcating the world

Into two

Slip in here

Inside

Where we create

Our own world

Pulsating with warmth

Slip in here

We could then

Look at the cold world

Together 

- Chandni Girija

July 18, 2021