A Love Spurned | Bobby Pawar

If I cannot have you, 
allow me to love 
your shadow,
even though I
cannot hold it
close to my breath.

If I cannot lie with you
in the thorns and flowers
of romance, 
leave me the clippings 
of your finger nails
to put in a locket
next to my heart.

If I cannot free you
from the embrace
of another,
make of me 
a waterfall that
has run dry 
in the summer.

All my kisses
are cherry blossoms
in the winter.
Imagined on 
the bare branches
of rejection. 

I remember you
in every grain
of sand your feet
have blessed.

Remember you
in every mirror,
on the chance 
that one of them
has seen you. 

Storyteller. Poet. Engineering college dropout. Purveyor of f-bombs. And m-bombs. Former advertising-man. One of India’s most awarded creatives. If you Google ‘Bobby Pawar’, it will show three people. One was in prison. The second goes by @jesus_is_life on Insta. You will find him dangling somewhere between the sinner and the saint.