Between You And Me

By Deepak Manchanda

Between you and me In all these years That have been There has come to live, A poem. A poem I can sometimes glimpse And sometimes hear its whisper Or simply feel it watching us And hurriedly scampering away Between you and me There has come to live A poem. That appears When I see you sip the wine And chuckle into the phone As you absently twirl A strand of hair.

A poem That permeates The yours affectionately Dishes of crumble and cream A poem that lives between us That sometimes Grows into poetry As you shadow your eyes And put on some shimmer Spray some fragrance To make poetry take wing With dinner for two Or maybe more. Happy birthday to you, Punu To you, and to that which lives between us.