Have you recited Faiz in bed?
Told someone that love was off the table?
Because you go through life not fearing loneliness
But the possibility of companionship,
the promise of love,
a future that might be a joint endeavour.
Have you recited Faiz in bed?
In lieu of letting someone be the wind beneath your wings?
Love is a ballroom dance and I must check those wings at the cloak room.
We might climb the stairs hand in hand,
But your fall will be yours,
As will the shattering of my spine.
Have you recited Faiz in bed?
In the hope that someone might just prove you wrong.
Or prove you right,
So that you might,
Recite Faiz in bed again.
2023/VDS
Vyoma 