Vestige

I have practiced looking into my own eyes
Inside the mirror
And lie to myself, without skipping a beat.

I have trained myself to auction love
At the price of lust
And to use people until I am done with them.

Yet there are times when my conditioning fails
And I am unable to stem
The rising tide of forgotten emotions- feelings, of unrequited love.

The Road not Taken

I always dream of
Telling you those unsaid words
Half a decade back in time:

A boy, too arrogant, too sure of himself
Unable to recognize the pearl he can pick;
A girl, too chaste, too shy for her own good
Unable to break out of self-imposed shackles.
Their paths crossed repeatedly
Yet never in the way it was meant to be
Till the tide of time drifted them apart
And the unvoiced words became a mockery unto themselves.

I try to forget her, yet in nights like this
I find myself imagining a fairytale that could have been,
Of an unreal past that never was.

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Fire on the water

As the bridges crumble

The thunder blazes in the red sky

As absolute silence reigns on the necropolis

The winds of time will etch away

The remnants of complex civilization

To sculpt new, uncorrrupted life

As the ravaged, sterile earth reaches fecundity.

Depraved

I choose

To drink the sweet poison

From her blood red lips

Our tainted souls writhing

Against each other

In an ecstatic copulation for all eternity

A fiery demise

To the fragile order of morality

Giving way to our private dystopian paradise

As we revel in the knowledge

That our forbidden love

Is going to consume us both.

Longing

Trying to sleep

Lying on my lonely bed

As I think of you

My pillow still smells

Of your hair

I take the scent in

As my heart skips a beat

I dream of yesterdays.

There are no Gods of the Sun

Man, in his infinite arrogance

Sneers down at the world, feels

all the rules in the Matrix can be broken

The clock of the universe ticks on-

Life is highly overrated.