Extra What? Poem by Umasree Raghunath

9 April 2019
Extra what?

Went in search of happiness
Amidst the storms of the times
Swayed in the arms of my love
Whispering the sweet nothings
I know for sure, it is not forever
For is the double standards of life
I know for true, that this is just a pass
Yet, I want to enjoy and cherish a lot
With no bonding in the bedroom happening
I craved for the love that I got on the road
Forgetting what I am, what truly I can be
Falling susceptible to the surroundings
The lust takes over the common sense
As I cross my well created images in dense
All for those few moments of ecstasy
That make me calm, puts me in peace
And ends my time in sheer honest bliss
However, all came to a shrilling cry
With the truth dawned upon me like a life's try
To escape from the brutal truths of reality
The traumatic chases ended in sheer stupidity
Back in the bedroom, beside a silent soul
I dug my face deep into the pillow with tears unshown!
Is it the shame, the guilt or the compromise?
Or is it the fact, that craving for love turns out to be a sin!