An Affair....

A year ago, a pleasant smile that split your lips,
You have been sneaking into my heart with frequent trips.
The air that you blew that went passing by,
Left my violent heart, wanting to cry.

You stole my heart and scanned it thorough,
Little did I notice I fell in love?
I buried my feelings and locked them at grave
As you had already been someone else's slave.

Though we had met only once,
I began seeing my world in your eyes that bounce.
A feeling of longing love bubbled in me,
Wherever I turn, its only you whom I see.

Pricking thorns of lost love that saw me terrified,
It was your presence that filled the absence of happiness,
How I wish I never died.
At least not for a girl who gives pleasured sadness.

I confessed and my heart pleaded,
You believed in everything but not my love,
Tears seeped to stitch my heart and left them threaded.
A heart that could stop anytime when I am called up above

To love you I found a reason not one but many a few,
Since then I began loving, loving your thoughts,
Each moment as I dreamt of you.
Wise I feel to realize how madly I love you lots.

Its not or your hug that I ask,
Neither your blossomed lips I long to share.
It is only that I want you to wipe my sorrows as I bask.
Bask in the glory of death and weeping on the pyre.

--Sharathi Sharath Subramonian