Saturday, January 19, 2019

The Ways of Forever

Come
Hold my hand
Let's walk
With no intention of getting anywhere
No need to wipe your sweaty palms
Or to feed those qualms

What's on your mind?
Let's talk
With no questions
Without the need to sound interesting
Or to make me laugh

Hold my waist
Let's dance
With no music
No need to match my steps
Or to charm

Touch my skin
Let's make love
No need to remember how it feels
I want to wither like a flower
And leave my scent on your soul

Look into my eyes
You can blink, you'll have to
'Cause this will take time

Come
Let's get well versed
In the ways of forever

Afterglow

Burning burning burning
Your cold black eyes
Give me fever
Tossing
And turning turning turning
Your bronze laughter
Taste of fear

Choking choking choking
On stale smoke
And my own desire
Pricking
And poking poking poking
Insecure questions
Needles of fire

I'm sweating
Breathless
In the afterglow of your heat
Vibrating
A mess
My core trembles at where we've been
I'm sweltering
In the heat of your afterglow
The fire of the explosion
Night after night
Again and again

Beating beating beating
My heart bashing against my ribs
It wants you
Gnawing
And eating eating eating
Teeth in my soul
Telling me not to love you

Dancing dancing dancing
Lost in you
Deranged in the dark
Finding
The racing racing racing
Words on paper
Too fast to leave a mark

I'm drowning
Helpless
In the afterglow of your love
Flailing
A ragdoll
Your face fleeting above
I'm dissolving
In the rush of your afterglow
The breaking of the dam
Night after night
Again and again

Wait Vol. 3

I waited
I came
I saw
I lost
You won
You...
You never end
You laugh
You love
You conquer
You...
You never end
You left
I cried
I lost
I wait

Faithless

Go down on me for the highest highs
You tell my favourite kind of lies
They say time flies
Yet it stands still in your black eyes

You've perfected the art
It's almost witchcraft
I almost believe you
When you say I have your heart

I'm falling fast, I don't want to wait
Why refuse the offer of a clean slate
But don't mistake my hunger for faith

I'll have your heart, when you cut it out
And bring it to me on a silver plate

सोचते हैं

पुरानी कहानियां हैं कई
नई कलियों सी उभरती हैं ज़ुबां पर
सुनाएंगे आपको, सोचते हैं
मगर आपकी नज़रें अलग बातें करती हैं, चुप रहतीं ही नहीं

पुराने ख्वाब हैं कई
नए रंगों से खेलते हैं उंगलियों पर
सजा दें आपके बदन पर, सोचते हैं
मगर आपका मिजाज़ बड़ा चंचल है, आप ठहरते ही नहीं

पुराने गीत हैं कई
नए तरानों से गूंजते हैं कानों में
आपके नाम सुनाएंगे किसी महफ़िल में, सोचते हैं
मगर बोल साथ नहीं देते, आपका नाम छोड़ कुछ याद रहता ही नहीं

पुराने ज़ख्म हैं कई
गुलाब के कांटों से रह रह चुभते हैं
आपसे मलहम कराएंगे, सोचते हैं
मगर मुस्कुराते रह जाते हैं, इश्क़ में बाकी एहसास टिकते ही नहीं

पुरानी मोहब्बतें हैं कई
नए चुटकुलों सी हंसाती हैं
आपको हंसाएंगे कभी, सोचते हैं
मगर डूब जाते हैं आपकी आवाज़ में, डूबते को हंसी आती नहीं

Insecure Li'l Shit

You're the cat's whiskers
You're the apple of my eye
You say you love me
At times that's a lie

You're the créme de la créme
You're a dream come true
I keep telling you this
But you're blind to the truth

I'm the correct answer to
All the questions you're consumed by
I'm your salvation
Better to let sleeping dogs lie

I'm sacred treasure
You're scared of losing in the throng
So you challenge all that I am
In hopes I'll stay, just to prove you wrong?

I Don't Want You

Maybe I don't want you

Maybe I don't want those lips
Hovering next to mine
Leaning into hot breath
Into a kiss I don't want

Maybe I don't want those eyes
Roving over my body
Boring through my heart
Piercing straight into my soul

Maybe I don't want that chest
So perfectly chiseled
To paint my lips on
And dig my nails into

Maybe I don't want that voice
Making me your puppet
Telling me things
I'm secretly dying to hear

Maybe I don't want those hands
Gripping my body
Twisting me and turning me
On a rollercoaster ride

Maybe I don't want those hips
Dancing against mine
Sending shocks of electricity
Up and down my spine

Maybe I don't want you
Plunging into my darkness
Shattering my core
Dismantling my world

Maybe I don't want you
Coming like an earthquake
Lifting me up
And leaving like a hurricane

Maybe I don't want any of it
There's only one way to know
Come to me
Let's do this again just to make sure

Play

Going to sleep in my own bed
Warm, secure
With aching thoughts of you
I wake up in the middle of a highway
Cold, bewildered
Looking for your eyes in speeding lights

Will you find me
With a touch
Afterall, it doesn't take much

Stop
Oh, play
Play me
Play with me
Just play
As long as you stay
It's okay
Play
Oh...

Running away from people
Lost, fixed smiles
And the inanity of everyday conversation
I'm talking to you instead
Uncensored narrative
What are the words saying, love?

Will you hear me
Will you take them as such
You don't say much

Stop
Oh, play
Play me
Play with me
Just play
As long as you stay
It's okay
Play
Oh...

More

You say I'm easygoing
That's as it may be
Enjoy it while it lasts
I don't own you, you don't own me

You're on my mind
But my heart's not in it
I'm going to need so much more
Don't unleash the beast if you can't feed it

I know what I want, I know what I said
You're playing with fire, burning dreams that have bled
I do want you, don't make that face
There's more to me than leather and lace

Yes, I want to be the woman in your bed
Only if I'm also the woman in your head

Past Return

What time is it, love?
Is it right past bed
Is it going to be loneliness
Where the sheets have bled

What place is this, love?
Is it right past sense
The tick tock of a broken clock
The air heavy with silence

Who are you, love?
Are you right past love
Seen too much, felt too much
Too much for happiness

What do I do, love?
I'm right past return
I needn't, shouldn't love you
I never seem to learn

Thursday, January 10, 2019

Online

Us
We exist in a flurry of hotel rooms
We live on the internet
Flitting through thoughts
Making appearances in conversations with other people

Us
Are we real?
We are more a phenomenon
Than a physical entity
We are a rebellion, against probability

Us
We are rooted in different worlds
Will you show me yours?
I want to give you a place in mine
Come home, love

Come home
To this small studio on the terrace
In this soulless city
It's a safe place for us to love
For us to breathe
For us to be...
Us