Moments stolen on cobbled streets
Mists veil our caresses,
Hunger.
Rapturous nights, telltale heart beats
Mysterious wedded bliss
Stung her.
In a shrouded sheet, they lay cold
Abandoned for routine,
Mundane.
Sing O’ Heart miseries untold
Lackluster seems love’s sheen,
All’s feigned!
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Batool Idrish Siamwala, pens under her maiden name, Mumtaz N Khorakiwala. She has served as an Asst. Prof. in English Language & Literature in St. Joseph’s College, Visakhapatnam, for nearly a decade. She went back to Creative Writing; she writes on online forums like Poets Inc and Artoons Inn Poetry Parlour and is a blogger on Momspresso.
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