Abhimanyu Singh Arha

The twilight shades
Melt your heart,
And you look everywhere
But find nothing.
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Throughout the lonesome winters,
When wind blew chilly,
When fog was all I could see,
When I grew cold in Delhi,
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Like the rise of a tide
I swell when you dropp a hi
when you are cold and ice and snow
and drift away far afloat
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I was with you all along,
in those twilight hours of anxiety,
when you gasped at the sight,
of unbound beauty of that valley.
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The man stood like a plank
in the biting frost
with one hand on the railing
along the lonely boulevard.
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To seek is not to sin,
For then you must know what you want,
Like the parched stretches of the desert,
Which long for moist winds alone,
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Your place lies at the end of this way,
This way turning around that fort,
Running along these fields,
As I chase your treads,
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Desert Nights,
Your cool fragrance,
Carried by the winds,
Here do I embrace.
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To love you is an illusion,
to breathe in your thought and to exhale your breath
is another reality,
to hold you is a story,
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Come, let me show you this, Yes!
the place where our minds met first
this square lake of black ripples
hewn by the moon to give eternal thirst
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To burn in thine love,
is my heartly pleasure,
to be spurn in your disdain,
is its only measure,
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