Phantom

by Loreto M

[box]Loreto M captures the spirit of romance in a poem that beautifully brings about the comfort zones existing in the most unexpected of places. Read on.[/box]

You are the space between the raindrops;

That corner in the umbrella’s canopy

Which has never known moisture;

The dry patches in the snail’s slimy trail;

The root of the swan’s feather

Where water has never been;

The pebble trail on a muddy path;

The sunshine that sometimes fades

But always comes back.

Someday, when you aren’t looking

And resting, unawares,

At the end of a rainbow,

I will trap you, like a memory,

Between the pages

Of my favourite book.

 

Loreto is a Copywriter at an ad agency. She used to be an MBA student, and before that a Botanist at an orthodox Christian college. Thankfully, neither could break nor contain her odd streak. Her poems are confessions – of the alternate lives that she would have loved to live, and of emotions that cannot be expressed other than in verses. Most of them are written in a manic-depressed or unrealistically elated state.

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