Borrowed Words

by Dr. Uma Asopa

I waited for you
tonight
and thought
happiness
would visit me
disguised.

I surfed
in words of love,
plunged in pain
of the saddest day
survived -
that could have
been a day of joy
otherwise.

The thoughts
of separation
and
hushed anticipation
wrote a sentence
I could
only acknowledge
as confusion.

Love came
in a wave,
but you went away
to return
only when
I had wound up
my passion
in strings
of hesitation.

Somehow,
the pouring words
were able to dip
in your thought
and borrow
some poetry of love
to save this day.

24-Apr-2005

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