#light academic aesthetic

If my love for you was not enough to make you stay,

Then I don’t know why am I standing,

At the edge of the water,

Hoping you’d call and

Then I’d jump into

The deep

Again.

I played your favourite song on an April evening

And like a never-ceasing echo lost in a cave with no exit,

Its verses imbibed on my skin, with each note deepening;

Thinking if it was not yours, why would it elicit?

Myneed to break free

From the clutches of rebirth and decay,

Dyed my fabric with broken paints

Of ‘I want to run, run away’.

And in that brief second:

Thestillness around us

Muffled under a blanket of chaos,

And like a person hypnotized at the count of three

In that brief second, I lived for an eternity.