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Raw stuff

Come walk with me
We will talk about things and laugh
At our frailties 

And the banal intricacies of this world

Love Stays
Beyond questions and dilemmas 

When we smile and eat and drink
Together 

Life seems ok
And things are alright. 

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I leave but I do not reach
More of a drifter

I walk with the bird’s intent
And the need to return 

Every man needs to return
Home
An odyssey undefined

So I walk
But I don’t reach

So I walk with the emptiness of
Oceans 

And I walk
And I walk

Beguiled the universe floats
Around me 

It’s a gossamer I have weaved
A tale I have spun

Let me color the tale
With my moments 

So I walk
So I drift

Evenings anchored in my
Lungs
A melancholy on my
Hands

It’s the rain of an individual
Apocalypse 

An individual
End of time

Passage

In the air a sadness
Looms large

I haven’t been the poet that I am 

This monsoon is different
A reminder of
Another time
Another life

I have changed
With the universe
Around me

Mountains and valleys
Of my days
A quiet passage
Through my time

We live in our time
In our hearts, in our life

And time flows by
Like it never knew

Like it never knew

-Anant