Sigh!

Picture Courtesy: Anupama Sengar

When a traveller on his journey
Sits on the rock by the side;
A mistress on the couch
Removes her heels after the night;
A bouncer in the club
Returns home fixing the fight;
A mother slowly reads
The handwritten letter of her child;
Then sigh silently creeps to convey
feelings you can’t confess. 

When a reader or a writer
Finishes the book and closes his eyes;
A widow or a bride
Looks at stars beyond the skies;
A waitress or a customer
Drinks in a club on Christmas Eve;
And a lover or beloved
Draws patterns with fingertips,
Then sigh comes in discreet to coat
the silence of the soul.

Love, longing, anger, and hurt;
Intense ardors, exhaustion and lust.
Chore of a lover; poet’s ink;
Soldier’s nightmare; silence’s skin.

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