The boy I met, the man I love

“Knees go weak or my heart pounds”

This never happens when he is around

Fingers don’t tremble but smile gets a curve

For the boy I met, the man I love

Stylishly shoves the door and enters the room

Weaves dream- threads on the thought-loom

Freezes me as he raises right brow

that boy I met, the man I love

Hands in hands, on those busy streets

Owned me in his humourous titbits

‘Twas corner of a bus stop in a metro

there the boy I met, the man I love

   Bronze brown skin had nostalgic allure

In drizzling showers on the sea-shore

Melting sunset and glistening rainbow

Knew; the boy I met, the man I love

Suddenly sublime silence went vocal

                                                Leaving me awestruck at his adam’s apple

Cool were the denims; striped t-shirt yellow

Of the boy I met, the man I love

Dressed in shirt and trousers one day

Enduring talks took my breath away

Feet on the skies; land was above

 When the boy I met, the man I love

Glanced at me in a crowded train

I summed up self; sanely insane

Time at my will, the day went slow

with the boy I met, the man I love

                                                 Ecstatically evolved, a child within though

Growing a minute old will be with him now

Found my soul mate, I was sure somehow

Since the boy I met, the man I love

© Juhi Gupte