Eila Mahima Jaipaul Poems

'you're right
it does become you.'
the words came out
in a faint mist of cold air
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on that street corner
next to the hot dog man
where the vagrant will take coin
'in any currency you got, lady'
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is it sacrifice enough
the small parts
that erode, die
when I'm not here
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could I but touch you
as a thing in itself
separate from everything
ever touched or seen
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I sit in awe of you
reading snowflakes
like life lessons
falling from the sky
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I caught sight of my reflection
trailing in the mirror
I saw love there
I knew you were my undoing
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skin awakened
waiting to feel contrasts
against sensitive surfaces
marking them with indelible tattoos
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by mid life, she’s in her nineties.
someone has written on her lines.
they must have been among the first, to make it there,
before the ticker disappeared from the pages.
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ruler of flames,
welcome me to your blaze,
caress me with your searing hands
warm my frozen being
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simply put...I love you

without pretense
I offer you my heart
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