Tag: heartbreak

• Bland

  

  I remember walking on the

  beach in Mahabalipuram, 

  the waves raging, 

  the winds howling, 

  the pages on which I penned

  a poem for you swept away

  and I thought 

  that the rage that made that 

  moment, the celestial anger

  that burned through both 

  the earth and the ocean 

  described us perfectly —

  two ill-fated lovers 

  like magnets repelling each other.

  I gave into my cruder, baser

  instincts that one night 

  which titillated you, 

  making you surrender to lust, 

  and in that moment we 

  made promises in breathy whispers 

  and held each other, saying 

  we’d let the other know everything, 

  but thinking back, our passion meant 

  nothing, and our ecstasy 

  was without substance. 

  Perhaps we were never lovers 

  to begin with, and I doubt 

  we’ll be friends unless we let 

  the other in. So let the ocean 

  sweep the debris and ashes 

  away because the smiles

  and tears only amounted to a 

  weak simulacrum of love 

  and everything that comes with it.

  June 5, 2023

  apathy, heartbreak, life, love, lust, Poems, poetry

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