POORNA BANERJEE

POORNA

BANERJEE

Smokes And Mirrors

I’ve got two joints in my purse

One I leave for you and the memories

Of your dying love

That echo mine. We both sit in silence

Beside the brook that babbles on

As time passes us by

The shadow of the mountains

The dark dreams that close in on us

The other joint we light together in our now-comfortable grief

That we both accept

Our fate sealed in the stars that twinkle and mock us

Our emotional poverty.

You look away, to a dream you don’t seem to care about but want

The existence of your choice far from the life of our own desires

I take the final puff and crush the light

With sudden, futile rage

That the mountains echo, and then, fade into darkness

It burns, it stings, it rages inside, but I am cold,

Cold as the mountain frost that sets slowly

As summer ends in the wastelands of Tundra

Stealthily, I give into my fate, fall back, and let you rise.

Unbroken

There’s a line

Between you and I.

A line we both

Decided not to

Cross. We sat on

Our sides, looked

At the line, and

Then at us.

There’s a line that

Runs deep. It's thin

But it’s deep,

And that makes

All the difference.

You told me to stay

Behind the line, but

Now you want to

Draw over it. I

Would have, if I could,

But now the

Line is my life,

Defined.

So let me stand

Behind my line, and

You can quietly go back

Behind yours.

A Letter To The Lover

Of My Love

First of all,

I must beg you to

Love him.

For he deserves to be loved.

Well

I hope you do love him

Like you love you.

No, perhaps more,

If you don't love yourself enough.

Love him like the way he wants you to,

Love him like the way he needs

Love him.

Because

It is important for you

You darling thing

To give yourself to his love

For

Somewhere in my love

I must have missed a part

Or a portion

Which remains to be filled.

A little bit

That leaves the picture

Incomplete.

And I urge you to

Finish it. Add the last dot.

Lover of my love

Love him like I did not.

POORNA BANERJEE

POORNA BANERJEE: Poorna Banerjee writes about the food she eats, places she travels to, and products she likes on her blog PresentedbyP, that she started in 2009. Her award-winning blog has been featured on popular portals. She has written for several portals including ScoopWhoop and DailyO, appeared a panelist for Kolkata Literary Meet, and has collaborated with over 100 brands globally through her blog and social media channels. Poetry was always a part of her life, and she has recently started experimenting with it.