priyanka choudhury Poems

Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee
See what a fine pair they make
‘U do an MBA’, says Tweedle Dum to Tweedle Dee
‘While I the PhD route take’
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Beautiful love stories in gilded frames
Inside the pages were torn, and dog-eared
For too often have multitudes read them and revered them.
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there lies the human body- all futile, all worthless, all flesh
the season of lovemaking is over- now look at the unshapely wax
these are the legs that had adorned your waist in blatant embrace
now look- they pretend to lie so limp as if devoured by polio
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Everyone asks why I love you
Why love a person who can never love or understand
Don’t they see your silent offering for me?
The copper plate filled with all your heart
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That night they lay, arm in arm,
heavy with the weight of words sparred
Looking into the black night around….
The inertia of illusion had passed.
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Oh, freedom, to be free
It always brings a song out of me
To be out running on the roads of my dream
Smug in bed
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I have been fighting, fighting in vain
For an ounce of self-respect, a yard of sanity
But these are an elusive pair of twins, they are Siamese perhaps
I keep telling myself that my mental hygiene is my own
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They danced with joy, a pair of silver anklets they were
Studded with tiny bright stones
Looking beautiful on the fair softness of the girl's legs
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During unaccounted moments
When I let my mind wander to wherever it wishes to go
Your ghost with a pretty face
Comes knocking at the door.
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Someday, one day, I will travel half the world for you
Will you..
Do you believe my incredible promise?
Should I wait to make the journey one day for real
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