Aren't you scared outside ?

 

There’s a safe inside my Almirah

where lay my heart
it is filled with bangles you never wore,

with moments captured in several photographs

You were just around the corner,
I’m a half a second late,
Still trying to win a race against
this unforgiving fate.

Are you sleeping on the flight?
Are you safe beyond the storm?
Aren't you scared outside
where nights are always freezing ?

You were just around the corner,
I’m a half a step away,
Held fast within a memory
of multiple long-remembered days.

You were just around the corner,
just beyond my reach,
Did you have your meal ?

Or you're starving stalking me ?

Are you on a layover ?
dancing in the shadows of the wine
past where my weak eyes can imagine.
or a meek-timid human struggling with memories ?

I run to catch your face,
then wake to find my empty arms.
You’re gone…. without a trace.

and I'm half a second late.