Cheran - Having lost your intimacy tonight

Having lost your intimacy tonight

Having lost your intimacy tonight
I have lost the meaning of being a poet

Tonight,
I do not think I can write

Sadness- filling-open spaces;
The wind has gone elsewhere
No shadows dancing on the walls
No leaves on the Margosa tree
Its last leaf flew away this evening
Your fingers are not stroking me

Buffeted by the waves
Writhing in pain
Rising, falling
In the damp wind
In the sea
A raft;
Halfway in the distance
A direction-less
Bird.

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-Cheran