Love Chameleon

Kama ~ Desire One Night is Life I sit and witness, Frenzied chanting with guitar, The hippie comes to me and says, “Have a drag, yaar, Life is ephemeral, It comes and it goes, Don’t waste your time, See the colors of the night, And I believe in hedonist delight, Step into my chameleon world, Of pleasures grotesque, And ecstatic sights, Relish uninhibitedly, Whatever may excite, Enjoy, As long as you can, And before you die”. Kama ~ Desire Masquerade The central lover, The other lover, And the fantasy lover, All merge in a complex triple blind. Who does one love, And who does one long for, And who does one lust for, It’s all so undefined. Like an efficient manager, I compartmentalize, The chambers of my heart, Prioritize and respond, To longings as they occur. I wear ambiguous, And colorful masks, Play the Johari window, Giving away enough, But consciously withholding, An abstruse part of me, From every lover. At last, I have mastered, The art of camouflage, In this chameleon masquerade. Viraha ~ Parting Estrangement A lover is a season, That lasts in your psyche, Long after the estrangement. Memories that never Get completely absolved, Keep conjuring up Like a magic trick, Only to float Then disappear, And again catch hold of you At unknown bends and corners. Viraha ~ Parting House of Unfulfilled Longings Impregnable walls surround, The house of unfulfilled longings, No light or air enters, Just an intense vacuum, Occupies every untouched corner. Since you left, I have been so engrossed, In your longing, That I have stopped belonging, Even to this house, Or to myself. Tadap ~ Longing Night of Jasmine The spring finally brings, Tidings of your return beloved, I go delirious as I anticipate, Through this long wait, The hour of our reunion, When you will take me, In your warm embrace, Your love melting me, And blossoming jasmines, In every pore of my being, And their fragrance shall fill up, And intoxicate, And put to rest, After what seems like eternity, The unrequited hunger, Of my craving body, And my yearning soul. Tadap ~ Longing Wireless Verses At times it is strange, The interaction Between fellow human beings. The intimacy of a seat Next to each other, The insurmountable obstacle, Of cultural conditioning. In this age of wireless, Emotions are often The most difficult to express. One longing to the extent Of being superfluous, The other indifferent, Perhaps completely oblivious. Adbhuta ~ Queer Surrender Love is the meeting, Of hearts and souls, Do hearts and souls, Have a gender? The body is but, An instrument of worship, To my lover, I willfully surrender. Adbhuta ~ Queer Gender Bender I am a gender bender, Seamlessly flitting, Between the masculine, And the feminine, Assuming each role, At will or desire, Adorning the Adonis persona Sometimes, Or at other times, Switching to Aphrodite. Some folks like to point, This out as my quiddity, To me it is simply, Ambidexterity! Vyangya Aadi ~ Satire Et Al At 40 At 40, my interests have changed, Yes, I am looking for love again. Sex may be a passing thing, Lousy sentimentality is not my kind of fling, What I really seek Is cerebral company, A clever conversation Or an intense debate, A silence that speaks, And ideas that ruminate, Funny that they never Included the brain, As a necessary component, In the love game. To me shallow courtship tricks Are a lot of fart, Mental Synchronization Is from where I start! Vyangya Aadi ~ Satire Et Al Electronic Break-up In this electronic age, Of online dating, Mating, And separating, Of social media, Texts, sexts and chats, When you break up, It is not just as simple As blocking feelings, And staying apart. You begin with blocking, All online and offline, Channels of access, To your heart. You start with Facebook, And move to Twitter handles, Next it is Whatsapps and BBMs, Skypes and Messengers, Blacklisting of Email ids, And debarring of calls. In this electronic age, When relationships, Like everything else, Are at most Transactional, And quickly And easily dispensable, One never suspected, The elaborate complexity, Of an electronic break-up!