Seven Deadly Sins

By Anushka Dey

I have never succumbed to indolence

before her eyes locked with mine 

I seep into the moment 

Basking in the warmth of her gaze 

And I lose, lose all senses of material world 

Leisurely swimming in pools of her seraphic eyes

I was never so consumed with rage 

Until I saw tears  threatening to fall from her eyes 

I cup my palm and let them gently land 

and watch them evaporate in  heat of my wrath

I roar, roar with my blood screaming for vengeance 

the soft-hearted hero has taken the  backseat, a demon has taken the wheel 

I have never experienced such insatiable hunger 

Until hues of your spellbinding honey brown orbs 

hugged my soul like a snug duvet in a winter morning 

as comforting as a sip of hot cocoa on a snowy evening 

I drink , drink like a thirsty man who found  an oasis in desert 

Yet I never have enough of this heaven sent ambrosia 

I have never envied anything more 

Than an inanimate stick of kohl 

For how gracefully it  decorates your eyelids 

Painting it like delicate wings of butterflies

I dream , dream of them each night 

And sleep soundly in embrace of their memories 

I have never submitted so completely to desires 

Till your eyes held my heart captive with their hypnotizing charm 

Like intoxicating song of mermaids beckoning me underwater 

I lose all perception of time and space in trance of that  magical melody 

And I drown, drown  in forbidden fantasies

allowing my sinless soul get coated in pearls of passion 

I have never let greed overpower me 

But when our eyes met  for the first time 

I have never wished for anything more 

than  waking up to see those pair of eyes each morning 

So I gambled, gambled away my sanity , knowing well

 that it was a deal with the devil, but sanctioned by all angels

I never knew the meaning of pride 

Until I saw love gleaming in those doe eyes 

The love that has become the very part of oxygen I need to breathe 

My home , my shelter from all worldly  storms 

I fail, I fail to keep my armor of defenses on 

and free fall in arms of the welcoming vulnerability 

I never knew I would look into someone’s eyes

And commit seven deadly sins all at once 

By Anushka Dey