DEAD END

It was a long walk

The ones that you take by your self

The ones where you hear your breath 

The ones in which you are close to answers 

Very very close

There is a song that has meaning now

And our bodies were inclined 

Sings the man

If you go

I won't even know

I won't even frown

I don't even know why

I try 

Every time 

Every fucking time

To bang my head on a wall

To scratch my nails down the concrete 

You are a coward

You are a dead end

I just want to sit for a bit

Don't worry 

I'll leave

If there is ever a window in this wall

I'll never know 

I'll be gone

I have heard stories 

Of multiple orgasms

I only have 

Multiple fractures

I am powder now

But you 

You are a coward

You are a dead end

IF YOU GO by PRATEEK KUHAD

Some people never get that

If and when I knock 

You should open 

And let me in

I am

The morning breeze

I'll find my way 

Through your unending name 

I'll find my way 

Through your indifference and mercy

An evening when the sun drops in to the sea

And the waters turn blood slowly 

I'll call it dawn

A morning when the sun arrives 

Pregnant and pale

I'll call it dusk

If you let me

I'll fill you up

With 

Black roses and sunflowers

My hair, I'll leave open

For you to feel on your skin

And I promise when I look at you 

Your insides will burn

(don't worry, I don't have superman's eyes or shaktiman's X ray vision)

There is so much

Humour in me

And a consuming desire 

To hear you laugh free 

And when tears roll down your eyes 

I'll lick them

And with the salt on my lips

I'll kiss you

And then you can tell me 

All the things that you don't 

Like what happened to you 

That makes it so easy

To walk out on someone 

You can talk to

You still have to grow up

If you don't know that's a luxury

I get you

You get me

Some people never get that.

Picture by Dick Bruinsma

Let's go back

On my body 

You wrapped your rotten guts

And my lips 

You sealed with a ruminated gum

In the dark you looked beautiful 

Like abandoned basements do

And my moans echoed in you

Our bodies travelled

But we didn't reach 

That sunlit spot 

Where you know

You'll die alone

And free

I remember holding your hand

And if you weren't busy coming 

I would have shook it cordially

Why does this frenzy

Look all but pathetic to me

When I dug my nails in you

It's not like I wanted your skin

when you looked down intently 

It's not like you could see me

On your bed lay with me

ugliness in all its beauty 

And ran down it's cold fingers on my spine 

While you kissed me tenderly

Just that once

Your eyes were shut 

And mine were locked with that thing

A black opaque dot staring back at me

Let's go back

Down that lane

Where we never meet

Even though 

we walk

Next to each other

I swear

It was fun 

And 

I would do it again

Our Bridge is on a river

That doesn't take

That doesn't give 

It's perfect 

The balance is critical 

If you tip over

You will meet the sea 

Cosmic Dance

This is the oldest poem I know 

It is about me

And you 

There is also the moon

Fluid dot in the deep blue

And I want to lick it

Carry it on my tongue

Bring it to you 

And if you stare at me

Undecided 

I want to open my fists

And send all the stars floating

But the moon is in love

With the blue earth 

He is not the only one 

Is he? 

The sun burns with lust

The earth is a bitch of course 

Twirling in the attention

So relentlessly

They pull

And release 

Each other

In this carnal cosmic dance

Do you feel it? 

On a day that was hot

Hot with his desire

The sun leaves red

A giant ball of crimson
And when the moon comes along 

Its honey in colour 

Do you feel it? 

The Convulsions of mother earth

On a night like this

I will lie naked next to you 

And you will tell me

The oldest poem we know

And when our lips meet

The stars will disappear 

The moon will become powder 

The sun will hide behind a cloud

And the earth 

The earth will stop turning.