Love Poem: The Edge
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Written by: Niharika Prasad

The Edge

Those eyes trapped between thick lines of kohl, frigidly stare

But yet glued to the screen.

Those eyes tire with the glare

But are possessed by a power unseen.


A hundred emoticons fast as a pulse

Yet none stir her expression less face,

Nor, was there a moment of impulse

As she typed with a practiced pace.


She did not not notice as a breeze blew her curls,

Nor when the screen blurred her eyes,

She was busy abbreviating her words

Finding solace in a world of lies.


He painted a rosy escape, dragging her to the edge,

The edge of an abyss, an abyss of his love.

His words lifted her, prepared to fledge

Far away from the chaos above.


The breeze failed to stir a single ripple in the abyss

She dreamt of gliding through it

Soaking in its bliss;

For as long as fate would permit.


She waited on that very edge, where she was told to wait

The edge, where her heart beats too fast.

She curls her toe, undaunted by fate 

His love, she knew, would have it recast.