Love by Design

I want us to be simple

Like leaves

With even the veins of enjoinment

Clear as palm lines

Visible where you end and where I

And where we mesh

When we go swimming

You could bob away

Float in your own peace 

And even swim away

I want you to have adventures

Big, fast, slow, small

I want to be one of them 

And when you get tired of them

I could be your home

A home by your logic

Not the diktats of society

I want us wedded to the present

And not the abstraction of eternity

And when you look back

I want to be one of your truest loves

When you look back

I want you to smile

Involuntarily

-

Chandni Girija

Day 12 of 30 | 30 Poems in 30 Days | National Poetry Writing Month #napowrimo #napowrimo2022