Jaspreet Mann

Silence at times,
Defies the law of understanding
Through speech and then
Smiles insolently,
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These lines are not written for you,
You remember, I said goodbye
And then you looked the other way
Wishing I would stay, now you say,
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I love the empty spaces hanging like hangers without clothes in the closet,
They talk to me with different faces and I know with every breath,
That somewhere the soul longs for you, it longs for all your imperfections,
And all your second-rate habits that were spurned, because now I know,
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When you walked out on tiptoe,
How was I supposed to know?
What was once as beautiful as a dream
Would one day wash off in the stream.
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I see you with new eyes,
The myth shattered,
The face unguarded, untrue
You are human too!
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There are times, when the mind
Doesn’t believe what it sees,
Though it knows it to be true.
Yet it vehemently disagrees.
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Propriety and sanity.
Puddles and insanity.
What will you choose?
We have everything to lose.
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You silently have coffee
Fingers caressing the rim.
And I, as usual, tea
Hiding eyes that brim.
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I am back, alive, rejuvenated,
From a deathly dream.
On the verge of losing everything,
To a silent placidity,
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Feel the day slip through the fingers
One moment, like traces of sand still lingers.
Painfully, reminding of what could have been,
It still feels the tenderness it had seen.
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I have these walls
Inside my head.
Outside my bed.
I wonder when will
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Raindrops from the sky,
a slice of the bedazzled moon,
sunrise in the canvas-
inside your eyes,
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