Conversations

Conversations travel the paths of existence

from the power-seeking Dr Faustus

to the love-seeking mere ‘us’.

Eat, Pray and Love,

Drink, drink and drink

Peace within you

Travel from the hotel room

To the ashram

To the room where we chose to be together

In the dark

We lie on our separate beds

The song of words travel in our dreams

The words make their journey to the Indian coffee shop

And to the burning car where we endeavoured

To find warmth in each other’s company

At late night in an effort to understand the drunkenness of a person

Two days later

After Manto, Rumi, Yeats and Shelley

After rain and romance

After pains of memories and loss of love

After childhood agony

After an evening on a moonlit beach,

After songs of love and pangs of sorrow

We found each other on the same path

That has no destination.