Punctured Pauses

My emotions won’t crawl this time,
They will speak,
As they always did,
Silently suffocating your mind,
With the displeasure of old times.

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My eyes won’t sparkle today,
The kohl is no more there,
Tears have washed it away,
When you decided,
Not to look in my eyes again.

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I won’t smile today,
Lips are tired of pretending,
Rather, this time,
Crack a joke, for old times’ sake,
Ask me something you remember,
I will surely smile, though faintly,
For your good memory,
Coz once upon a time,
You had said you don’t remember anything.

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Do you like the silence and the long pauses?
Before you think you have arrived,
A twist in the tale and a few surprises,
Stretched are imaginations,
To the extremes you can’t even imagine,
Delayed are thoughts when words float like clouds,
So annoying is this silence,
Nothing less than punctured pauses.

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