Lovesick

I think of your arms wrapped around me

and my heart begins to beat erratically.

I think of watching the door open

and see you walk through it

and I can't help but smile

at the foolish trial for this impossible future

You seem so distant, unattainable, surreal;

To me you are an image

an illusion which alludes me

and lulls me to sleep in the waves of love

I cannot touch you or embrace you

Since the pleasure of touch

being something I have never

indulged in

Never have I imagined

spending my time with someone

the way I do with you.

If I could, I would fly over oceans
Only to be able to take you out

for meals at your favourite restaurants.

Just so that I can hold you in my embrace

and make you forget about all the pains

that you have ever felt.

I want to lay with you

and hold you as we fall asleep into the dark winter night

which I would brandish into my memory

For you will be the first for me
And I would imagine to be the last for you.

~Anjora Khatri