An evocative love poem by Nilakshi for Different Truths.
It was a year or two before
I felt that sense of being left out
That abnegation…
When the favourite colour of the sky was what I started watching, cerulean …
Less than dark at midnight
Not quite as light as dusk
When I lay awake beside you
As you turned your back and slept
With a sense of peace
And I turned to sift through your playlist
Of eclectic stuff …
ghazals and hip-hop,
Bauhaus greats and
Baul strains
And I found it was your mind
That I loved the most
Not you, not the man you were
But how you thought...
How you
Choose your music
Read your books
Played those notes
Cared for the flowers
That’s when I knew
It was serendipity
That I found you
Waiting across time zones
Over the raging sea.
Picture design Anumita Roy
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Nilakshi Roy is an Associate Professor in English in Vaze College, Mulund, Mumbai. An occasional academic writer and poet, she writes short stories and articles. A founder of Culture All: Conversations on Cultural and Social Awareness, she works with underprivileged children and women, in Thane, in her spare time as of now. She has authored a number of papers on diverse subjects, notably on fashion, on the Saree, and the choli, and on film.
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Loved it. It kind of resonated with me. I always believe we fall in love with a thought process, with the beautiful mind one possesses. Looks just initiates the attraction part of love