Page 36 - Musings 2022

A Quizzical Smile

Dhiraj Singh Pawar
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I am a queer person;
strangers are my thoughts.

I saw her across the street,

a quaintly beautiful girl in shorts.

She was adorned by God himself;
then I lost her sight.

I quailed seeing her again;

I quaffed a lot that night.

My mind was out on the streets,
when I was in her quarantine.

I lay on my bed whole day;
with my quill pen and a clear screen.

My hands quivered with emotions;
as I wrote down my quandary.

I cooked quixotic perfect plans;
made her my soul and solidary.

I quelled all my feelings
and went out one day.

I sank in my mind’s quicksand;
when I saw her standing on the quay.

I quenched my anxiety;
I quelled my quagmire;

I faded away all my qualms;
I decided to touch the livewire.

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