By Bhavana Kanna Vadupu
1.
I am breathing
Yet choking inside;
Did you take all my air?
Did you take all my air;
When you kissed me;
When you laughed with me;
When you called me
To claim me;
When you cried with me;
When you left me
For me;
Did you?
Did you take all my air?
Now I am choking
Praying death reach us
Before I never am near you.
All I know now,
I am breathing
Yet choking inside.
And I can’t help but wonder
Did you take all my air?
2.
Nights are nice.
I mean, it is cold
But I have this
Power to shut the windows.
I have this
Power to wrap a blanket around
To cuddle with my plushie
Pushing the cold away.
I have this sinister energy
To turn the light
And make it look like a day.
I haven’t invented any of this
But I don’t remember the
World before electricity
Just like I do not remember
A me; before there was you.
And I realize all this
Natural power looks
Weirdly exhausting
While I have tears
Rolling down
All while I realize
These is no you anymore
And I fail to remember
A me; before you.
Still, I persist with the thought
Nights are nice;
It is now that you
Choose to complete your
Daily step count
Running in my thoughts
It’s cold, but remember?
I have a blanket wrapped
And a plushie to push
The cold away.
3.
I’ll sing you a song, he said.
The moon reminds me of you, he said.
Staring at the blank sky with
Sparkling lights and glittering bugs.
I’ll sing you a song, he said
And I claim to be smiling;
Listening him breathe tales about
Stale bulb on blank sky,
Miles away from our cold space
And I claim to be smiling;
At your naïve thought of me
Seeing stale bulb on blank sky
Miles away from our cold space,
While I have atoms of air enveloping me
Calling me by your name
And you say, you sing me a song
Seeing moon on blank sky.
By Bhavana Kanna Vadupu
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