Short Term Relationship Poem by Nalini Jyotsana Chaturvedi

No strings attached
For love is just a trap
No commitments
To keep
For no more faith
Is left

You are
Not my girl
Waiting
For you
To unfurl
And your
Black secrets
Slowly will
Unearth

These are
Your words
Scathing
They hurt

Then why
You touch me
Caress and
Undress me
It seems that
Your appetite
Not quenched
Has no dearth

You love
My presence
Attention
At all chance
But in your heart
I have no existence

So,
Am I being used
As you are pursued
Hiding your pretence
While I dream
In my trance

You have
No long term plans
While I
Wait for
Just that single
Glance

One day
Too soon
I will be gone
And
then you
my love
Will surely
Be torn
Nalini
Water lily