The Woman I Love

The woman I love calls me special
The woman I love calls me crazy
The woman I love calls me unstable
The woman I love suspects me
The woman I love thinks of other women
The woman I love stalks my moves
The woman I love fails to feel my love
The woman I love fails to know my love
The woman I love thinks me a charlatan
The woman I love feels love for another
The woman I love hoodwinks herself
The woman I love knows not where love lies
The woman I love runs after chimera
The woman I love shows me the train tracks
The woman I love shows me the sharpness of a razor
The woman I love shows me a Colt .45
The woman I love pushes me to doom
The woman I love puts white carnations on my grave.
The woman I loved, loved, loved………….
And then there was darkness
Without the woman……….
And loveless darkness ruled the earth.
The woman I used to love….
Lived on and on
Looking for
What
…… another Me?
Ha ha ha……….the woman I loved
The woman I loved, the woman I love…………..

Dhaka
12th July 2016

© S M Shahrukh and Traces of Orange, 2016