Saturday 20 December 2008

Auden

private faces in public places
you see
glimpses of me
i do not want revealed
a raised eyebrow
a hushed whisper
your name in every breath
you smile as you realise
you have swum against the tide
and won
me
like i am
some prize catch
catch is that
we are
who we are
and can only be that
these people
in this life
the face retreats
only to be revealed
at a different time
in a different rhyme.

5 comments:

Sooraj said...

And hence love lasts. For eternity!

priya said...
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priya said...

book of poetry has no new year additions ???

Sooraj said...

Why "Auden"? I googled the name and I found only W.H.Auden whom I could relate to this. Am I right?

Srividya Sivakumar said...

yes sooraj,to auden belongs the line of private faces in public places.. hence the title.