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Writer's pictureRiya Shende

love-tainted ruination

the books bled today

leached romance from their pages

and the words have now snowballed

into this familiar lump in my throat

it's asphyxiating

it's ferocious, reckless, rapacious love

it's gentle, cinematic, pastel love

come claw the void out of me

come claw the damp earth

i shall swim through your debris

and call it land

my arms are dabbling in cans of paint

fingers fumbling

for a memory to grab

the air is viscous and

in my head

your smile is theatrically replaying

amidst a sunny, hazy circle of confusion

oh stop me

this is getting out of hand

hands manackled behind my back

you see, kind sir

i do have quite the propensity

to submit to love-tainted ruination

gather me in your fingers

pour me into candles

the wicks are parched

for a taste of the fire

the roads have unfurled like a red carpet

time is melting from the clock

tiny lightbulbs of bleach and water

are sprouting from the ground

now i'm tasting colours, hearing patterns

blowing thought bubbles in the wind

did we blindfold the sky in shame?

i may have caught it peering down below

through the pinholes in its fabric

button, unbotton, needle and thread

now kiss me coherently, will you?

don't love me from that window afar

for i'd like to pretend

just for a while

that i'm a little more inebriated

than i really am


Illustration by Adarsh Jay

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