Silent Night

I wake up

and your thoughts engulf me

like a warm shawl on a wintery morning

As I sip the morning brew,

moments we’ve spent together

flash as fresh as the tea I enjoy

savouring the memories

of phone talks

smoke-meetings

text messages

and those

passing-by secret smiles

.

Any attempts to cease

the coming thoughts

fail and continue to haunt me

even through your elongated absence

.

When the morbid day starts

I hope it to settle in the

endless chores I have ahead

Yet you linger in the things I do

As if you’re looking at every

minute movement of me

But the reality that

you’re nowhere close to

even thinking about me

Strikes me like a needle, piercing

in the middle of a silent night!

.

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