Simply

By Rudra Pagar

This one is for love.

Do you love someone?

You have already said

I love you.

"And I love you",

the reply back.

Is it exactly the attraction to

appearance that she has

or

do you pick on her brain too?

the times when conversation

goes on for months,

decades even

and there really is

no real end.

referencing back

and forth

and fifth

and sixth

seventy

inside

sort of trivia,

jokes and limericks

that thrived

as consequence of

the relationship.

the I love yous

are deletable

affectation.

the length of the

conversations

a lifeline.

What is your number

of disconnected hotlines?

seventh

eighth

ninth

tens,

tensed

how do we choose to

cordially end?

By Rudra Pagar