Un Año Juntos

As I lay here and see you making your hair

I think of our one year of bond and give you an awestruck stare

If this is a dream, I want to be pinched

In every possible world, to you I want to be hitched

From our late night talks

To your never ending dedicating romantic songs stock

From sharing my food out of formality

To "I don't share my food" is reality

We have have known each other, everyday, a little more

Like you take more time to get ready than I, which I adore

Your arms are my perfect snug

And mine for you, when you are scared of a bug

I'd protect you throughout

No matter what

Even at war

I'd take a shot

I'd take a bullet from the enemy's gun

Just to save you, my precious one

You are an epitome of love to me

Your dedication like Krishna's to Rukmini

I will love you today and tomorrow

I will never let you go from my heart

I know nothing can come in between us

Nothing and no one can tear us apart.

© Priyanka Bajaj

Remember Why You Started?

"This is the end",

Yells my mind

The heart whispered to the mind,

"Remember why you started? To end?"

Your jokes became my memes,

In my memories, your laughing face still beams

You were the friend, I never intend to make,

But my fortune had its take

The music is playing on the stereo,

I wish you would bellow

What have I done that, now, you don't care,

I wish, someday you would stop by and clear the air

The cold silence that we share,

It hurts me dearly to know that, you are not there

I hope we reunite before it's too late,

I wish cosmic powers change our friendship's fate

I miss you man, can't you come back,

You were loved, didn't you know that

"This is the end",

Yells my mind

The heart whispered to the mind,

"Remember why you started? To end"

© Priyanka Bajaj

When the dusk falls

Often I am alone with my loneliness

Peeping out of the brown wooden window

A sparrow extracting ice from its nest

Thinking spring is not far behind

An owl sitting on a twig

Waiting for someone to arrive

Beyond the lane, I see woods

And I slip more into our memories

Your footprints on icey pathway are gone

I saw them last, an evening before you left

At the end of the woods the graveyard freshens the scene

I turn away to shudder

And you are there on your couch

I think of you all more

© Priyanka Bajaj

Her Warm Smile

The kid was more hungry,

She hid her hunger behind her warm smile

He was excitedly calling her loser,

She hid her deliberate defeat behind her warm smile

He relished hot chappatis,

She hid the cold ones behind her warm smile

He said, "you are so lucky to rest all day at home",

She hid exertion behind her warm smile

He was congratulated for his promotion,

She hid her efforts of investing her soul, time, life in making his home, behind her warm smile

He teased her in the streets,

On reaching home, she hid her hurt behind her warm smile

She lives more for others,

And burn her desires, hides it behind her warm smile

Her compassion touching sky and is grounded at heart,

Your well being and happiness is the reason behind her warm smile.

© Priyanka Bajaj

Three Words, He Didn't Say

You spoke to me about everything

Alas! One song, you didn't sing

You wrote letters and mails

Poems, verses, their long trails

You said I am beautiful

I became hopeful

You spoke about our love and care

But to say those three words, the time you didn't spare

I waited, I longed, I craved

Thinking someday you will say, that you have saved

Didn't you mention, "Without me, you can't stay"

Then why didn't you say, "let's run away"

©Priyanka Bajaj

Her Walk

Walking down the beach

She recalls her last visit

She was carried by him in peach

He made her a tiara, on her crown, that still sit

She took her steps in cross

Making trails of her and his footsteps

She walks the length and finds moss

Turning it into bracelets for old chaps

Looking behind, she notices shells

Put artistically on his footsteps by waves

She walks towards shore, hearing what sea tells

Sensing sea's intentions, her heart raves

Gushing waves come and touch her feet

To her, the sea wants to serve

"No matter how many times you touch my feet

I will never forgive you, as you engulfed my love."

© Priyanka Bajaj