“Gujaarish” (meaning ‘Request’) is an Indian movie masterpiece starring Ash and Rithik, and the cigarette smoking scene in the speeding car vividly paints the agonies and ecstasies of their relationship. I have tried to capture these contours and “breaking free moments” in my poem:
“Eternally She Lives, Forever She Dies.”
-Intimately, she lit a cigarette between my lips…
Tendering tiny tendrils of life, never yet lived,
Passionately, over precious puffs she lingered…
Her parched soul too, by life, lusted to be kissed.
-With yearning eyes, primal passions she ignited…
With tempting touch, forbidden fantasies she lighted,
Her scent so intoxicating, languorous life I inhaled…
Her silence so seductive, infernal inhibitions I exhaled.
-Wind in the hair and longings in the heart…
Desire daredevil, euphoric like a prancing dart,
Luring labyrinth mysterious! Whispering wishes run amok…
donning dancing hooves, waltz like wanton wants.
-Snatching lifetime, for an instant from time’s grip…
Extracting every ounce, its sweet nectar insatiably we sip,
Intoxicating love, nuanced yet intense…
Scorch our spirits, souls, sanity and sense.
-Tentalizing touch of her fingertips to cigarette my quivering lips…
Stir memories of our tempestuous times and trials under veils,
Soon to fade away with the drifting smoke…
Poignant reminder of life unfulfilled, a cruel joke.
-I was destined to be wasted, and she by design…
She gave me all of her, and much more to align,
Transient time tethered, stood still for some time…
Sanguine souls fused forever, but bereft bodies pine.
-What is she to me: a mother, a lover, a sister, a friend ?
Undefined relationship, ensconced in feelings unexplained,
Agonizing and exhilarating, is our unspoken bond…
Unfathomable! It’s much more…above, deep and beyond.
-I was Sisyphus! Struggling to claim what was not to be…
Now I surrender, for life chose not to be in me,
She insane in her fight, I triumphant in my defeat…
In this tragedy, there was nothing to win and none to beat.
-My life is her liberation, and death my freedom…
Right or wrong, in the twilight of finality who can fathom,
As I say goodbye, my death she wants to defy…
But death is the ugly truth, life but a beautiful lie.
-Life lifeless we lived, yet clinging to the magnificent moment…
My existence is her life, our parting her torment,
In death’s shadow, imprisoned and intertwined are our lives…
Within me, eternally she lives! With me, forever she dies!
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