Anamika: Alone in the Crowd

Alone I feel the darkness surrounding -
Blend into the background mildly,
Watch the masti on and on,
Make no trouble, make no sound,
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee,
Feed on the energy, look on in glee,
Keep the aura of silence as my robe
To cloak my hooded figure under the lone lamp-post.

Lost In A Book

"Happiness is getting lost in a good book"

I became a stranger in a new land... Fell in love with a strange man... Found that love could grow in truth... Because heart was what counted not language or group...
And we married against the odds... Had a life to be envied... He gave me the light of our lives, Nur al-Hayah... With her I found a mother in me...
I found how much closer a husband and wife can be... I saw that age mattered nothing... That time would stop still... Before this love across borders, worlds and years....

Book: The Map of Love
Author: Ahdaf Soueif

For Better or Worse?

Sweet words from sweeter lips
No longer suffice,
The ice is growing
Unchecked and wild,
The distance that was physical
Has now turned to the heart,
The joys they shared
Are harder apart,
The freedom both knew
Is striving to let loose,
Chafing at imaginary bounds
Still two weighty rings sits sound,
A marriage on verge of break
What happened to "for better or worse", fate?

You Lost Her

Promised forevers
To end in heartbreak,
Once friend and lover,
Now just memories to fade away.

Everything existed -
The virtual perfect friend.
When came to reality,
The screen just gave in
And you found the hidden
Sorrows and screams,
A banshee was unleashed
Tormenting your every dream.

You saw her finally swept away -
The enveloping arms of another man,
You now see what was thought torment
Had never been true torment until now.

Stay, Stay

His beauty entraps all that is she -
Snared her soul, marked his to keep;
Now silence and breathing in a dark room,
Hands roving, not too soon -
Gentle, asking, modesty kept;
Love, more love, nothing witheld.
The touch now hits core deep -
And rouses a quiet noise,
A sigh of satisfaction that both now finds;
Stay, stay, murmured into her hair
Yes, yes. A million times, yes, the reply said.