करवट

फिर सूरज सो गया, ओढ़ के रात की चादर,

फिर तेरे ख्वाबों ने मेरे आंखों में करवट ली ।

Missed call

The screen lit up, it read 'You'

Promised a chat, long overdue

The meeting drawled, boring as hell

Was gonna lose you, I could tell

The buzzing stopped, I had missed

A chance... to have my ears kissed

-Piyu

Escalator

I run through the gate

Dragging the suitcase

Stumbling on the steps

Of the escalator

A man in front

With an impatient grunt

Gives way to me,

(the clumsy navigator)

I turn to smile

It takes a while

To find the face

Familiar beyond measure

The smile is halted

The eyes are haunted

A burst of memories

Sadness..... yet pleasure

He picks the bag

Fallen from my hand

We stare stunned

At the lover, the friend

The fingers slack

The hand goes back

The escalator has,

Reached it's end.

-Piyu

Friday, 3.2.23

Slowly drifting to placidity

Barely veiling the turbidity

Of a hidden world

Lying wrinkled, curled

My emotional stupidity