Prandial Plaint
My love, I love your breasts, I love your nose.
I love your accent and I love your toes.
I am your slave. One word, and I obey.
But please don't slurp your morning brew that way.
Vikram Seth
Interpretation
Somewhere within your loving look I sense,
Without the least intention to deceive,
Without suspicion, without evidence,
Somewhere within your heart the heart to leave.
Vikram Seth
Distressful Homonyms
Since for me now you have no warmth to spare
I sense I must adopt a sane and spare
Philosophy to ease a restless state
Fuelled by this uncaring. It will state
A very meagre truth: love like the rest
Of our emotions, sometimes needs a rest.
Happiness, too, no doubt; and so, why even
Hope that 'the course of true love' could run even?
Vikram Seth
Round and Round
After a long and wretched flight
That stretched from daylight into night,
Where babies wept and tempers shattered
And the plane lurched and whiskey splattered
Over my plastic food, I came
To claim my bags from Baggage Claim
Around, the carousel went around
The anxious travelers sought and found
Their bags, intact or gently battered,
But to my foolish eyes what mattered
Was a brave suitcase, red and small,
That circled round, not mine at all.
I knew that bag. It must be hers.
We hadnt met in seven years!
And as the metal plates squealed and clattered
My happy memories chimed and chattered.
An old man pulled it of the Claim.
My bags appeared: I did the same.
Vikram Seth
jus a lil while.. (by aditi)
jus a lil while..
at times i want someone beside me ,
to hold me tight
to say its allright,
jus for a lil while....
at times i want to break free ,
from hate , jealousy, loneliness ,
from hurt and from pain ,
from all those things which make us human,
so that i never hurt again
jus for a lil while...
we live in the world of instant gratification,
to overcome sadness , lonliness and depression
and if things were okie..
jus for a lil while..
it would make me feel ..
that probably,
tomororw would be a better day
and everything would be fine.