My post for today is a poem I wrote for Conde Nast traveller
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If there were no borders
No visas or passports
And if countries were not
Guarded like forts
If distances were traversed
As easily as thoughts
If life wasn’t a mass of
Tangled up knots
If unravelling a thread
Didn’t lead to mayhem
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If there were no borders
No visas or passports
And if countries were not
Guarded like forts
If distances were traversed
As easily as thoughts
If life wasn’t a mass of
Tangled up knots
If unravelling a thread
Didn’t lead to mayhem
If there was only us
And if there was no them
If I was free as a bird
And at will I could fly
Then no force would stop me
In your arms I would lie
Or if I could teleport at will
I’d turn up every day
We would talk face to face
You would ask me to stay
Instead I count the days
Till I see you again
Each moment that ticks by
Brings a fresh wave of pain
We promise each other
That we will meet soon
We exchange countless texts
And gaze at the same moon
Across thousand of miles
With each other we converse
The laments we bury
The desires we nurse.
And yet above all,
Two hearts thud in unison
In secret they opine
I am already yours
You are already mine
And if there was no them
If I was free as a bird
And at will I could fly
Then no force would stop me
In your arms I would lie
Or if I could teleport at will
I’d turn up every day
We would talk face to face
You would ask me to stay
Instead I count the days
Till I see you again
Each moment that ticks by
Brings a fresh wave of pain
We promise each other
That we will meet soon
We exchange countless texts
And gaze at the same moon
Across thousand of miles
With each other we converse
The laments we bury
The desires we nurse.
And yet above all,
Two hearts thud in unison
In secret they opine
I am already yours
You are already mine
**************© 2017 Preeti Shenoy
For more poems click here. Some poems have already appeared in print. Kindly do not reproduce without permission.
© 2014 Preeti Shenoy
For more poems click here. Some poems have already appeared in print. Kindly do not reproduce without permission. - See more at: http://blog.preetishenoy.com/2014/08/do-i-tell-you-poem-blog-marathon-day-7.html#sthash.IopfCRtF.dpuf
For more poems click here. Some poems have already appeared in print. Kindly do not reproduce without permission. - See more at: http://blog.preetishenoy.com/2014/08/do-i-tell-you-poem-blog-marathon-day-7.html#sthash.IopfCRtF.dpuf
