Finally.

It all started with a text message,

And then feelings outdid the cage.

Coffee mates, bulk dates and chit-chats,

Opened our stories’ flood gates.

  

Those giggles and laughter,

At times with tears we barter,

Immense ecstasy of holding hands,

And that cuddle, seamless as sands

Was falling in love the idea?

Or growing in love was the panacea.

‘Baba, But why don’t you express?’

Dumbstruck again, I sensed distress.

Where will this lead?

Is love our peculiar greed?

Is this love or sheer infatuation?

In heart’s terrain, when mind gives suggestion!

Ahh! The head is already pissed,

While amidst the poem you are missed,

Wait! Let me not overthink,

Your face just flashed in a blink.

Overcoming the labyrinths of the past,

It’s time to pave the future, so vast

Finally,

I guess, at the climax of the poem,

Ready I am, for a new chapter…pretty wholesome.

                                            ---Janvi Sonaiya