Wanton

The circle carries on
The black hole deepens
It’s getting darker this side
Please touch and save me

It is for you I lie
To myself, I pretend
That I live without you
When it’s not easy to breathe

Is there anything that you
With I being me
Will ever ask for
I’ll wait till you do

Does the sea also know
How the rock feels
That always misses it touch

Some day they have to know
That you and I are but walls
Guarding two souls
And they always fail


Navkirat Sodhi (New Delhi) is a budding poetess and journalist. She has a collection Un published from Writers Workshop, Kolkata.