A Lover’s Lament

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The rhythmic beat of unspoken words shrink your lover's world; Here's a poem that weaves silence & love with words.

When I hear the unyielding
Anger of your silence
I think of the roar of knotted steel
Hot-rolled in tentacles
Of rail tracks running into shadows;

I think of dried mango buds
Piping their rearranged signals
In everlasting tanginess;

I think of the maybes
I have waltzed to touch
The changing octopi of you;



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