“I know these butterflies won’t settle.
Not tomorrow, not today,
not even when the clouds come kissing the ground one day.
I can’t lock them away in a glass jar, nor can I trick them to fly away in the open sky.
They won’t move an inch, nor skedaddle, not even when the heavens try,
And when we are 200 years or so, having had lived so many lifetime too,
they’ll still find a way to flutter, at the very thought of you.”
-Akanksha Gulia
“It was dark, not a star in sight,
Clouds possessed the sky,
like it was trying to prevent the stars from witnessing our love.
The heat that overpowered the night, soon turned to fire.
No wonder it made the sky shy away,
for even though it did love the stars,
it had never seen a love,
quite like ours.”
– Akanksha Gulia
“Even though we are far away,
we aren’t apart.
Your heart is my home,
I’m shadow to your soul,
so I am always where you are.
As you lay besides the ocean,
falling in love with the sky,
as it changes its colours,
filling magic in your veins,
My eyes count days
till I see you again.”
-Akanksha Gulia
“Every time I see him,
it feels like
catching a glimpse
of the glowing sky
before sunrise,
And as the rays filter through to make the morning glory thrive,
my heart unfolds too and comes alive.”
-Akanksha Gulia
I know these butterflies won’t settle.
Not tomorrow, not today,
not even when the clouds come kissing the ground on a foggy day.
I can’t lock them away in a glass jar,
nor can I trick them to fly away in the open sky.
They won’t move an inch,
nor skedaddle,
not even when the heavens try,
And when we are 100 years or so,
having had lived so many lifetimes too,
they’ll still find a way to flutter,
at the very thought of you.
-Akanksha Gulia
He just looks at me,
like I’m the purpose he’d been looking for, all his life.
Like all the beauty, resides in my eyes.
He speaks a thousand words, just sitting across me as he stares,
While our lips, practices the art of being mute, speech impaired.
There’s this sparkle in his eyes, that makes the sky filled with million stars, fade away too,
and I always know exactly what he’s trying to say,
so I just softly whisper,
“Baby, I love you too.”
-Akanksha Gulia
“It was dark, not a star in sight.
Clouds possessed the sky,
like it was trying to prevent the stars from witnessing our love.
The heat that over powered the night, soon turned to fire.
No wonder it made the sky shy away,
for even though it did love the stars,
it had never seen a love, quite like ours.”
-Akanksha Gulia
It’s easy to be a poet around you,
Even on your worst days,
there’s poetry in the way
you breathe.
-Akanksha Gulia
He’s not your regular guy. His ways are far too twisted and he’s far too tangled in his own head.
But our eyes make conversations, making me fall for the words he never said.
He gets my heart racing and it runs straight to him, taking every piece of me along, and then it beats to the sound of his song.
While he keeps up his poker face, I lay all my cards on the table, each one of them showing hearts.
He smells like love, making me wonder, what had I been breathing in before him?
The complexities that flow through him, makes me want to drown in,
And there’s this strange pleasure seeing the walls of my heart turn paper thin.
I feel like I’m flying even as I drown, thinking of all the endless possibilities of what we could be,
If we could let our hearts be wild and free.
When we kissed the world ceased to exist.
I’d never known the feeling of being complete,
So I lost my heart in a heart beat.
-Akanksha Gulia
There was an enormous bright light,
And then everything went comfortably numb,
and the days slowly turned into nights.
But a light would shine far away in a line,
It was then when I saw you for the first time,
and my heart wondered, if you could be mine?
With a snap of a finger,
you disappeared in the thin air,
leaving stardust behind,
Even the dust shined like one of the kind.
I’ve been down on my knees,
heart sinking into an oblivion too,
I’ve searched for you in worlds within worlds,
I’ve searched through and through.
I’ve had raindrops wound me, cause so much pain,
Only to have it rain all over again.
When the ground trembled, I stood tall,
Looked for you in the crispy leaves,
in case the tremors made you fall.
Oh I looked for you,
dawn till dusk, dusk till dawn,
I felt my bones crumble in the palm of your hand,
but when I turned around you were far gone.
I walked in the night,
looked in the places you once hid,
Though it’s day now,
but nothing shines as bright as you once did.
Feet don’t agree with my spirit anymore,
The Heart’s in pieces, soul is torn.
There once resided Galaxies,
now it’s all empty inside,
I’m not looking for you anymore,
so you can come out now,
from wherever you choose to hide.
-Akanksha Gulia
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