The stranger

May 31, 2015    

After we make love

We watch the TV shows,

Not my favourites – I hate them –

Just the ones that you love.

Because, I like the man you love.

 

We blow puffs at each other,

Gold Flakes or Davidoff Lights.

Maybe because smoking kills,

And maybe it’ll kill all the men,

Except this stranger you love.

 

And when after the goodbyes,

When life takes over again,

And familiar men start waking again,

The stranger goes off  to sleep

And lives in dreams of those puffs again.


The stranger 4.5 5 Yateendra sahu May 31, 2015 After we make love We watch the TV shows, Not my favourites – I hate them – Just the ones that you love. Because, I like the man you lov...


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