My body is not mine
I gave it to you
Along with my heart
Only because,
you nurtured it
far better than I did
I oil it, scrub it, perfume it
all the lush products in the market
My eyes all kohled up
dark and smokey
hair short and long
curly and sleek
But you held my heart
in your careful but firm palms
even when I was lost
in the midst of jungle called life
you lend your shoulder
and kept my feet firm
your eye-lashes closed
my eyes during insomnia
you nurtured all of it
every bit of it
every cell in me
the true essence of my body
because you had my heart
above all and foremost
a heart you took
with the twinkle in your eyes
when I met you
in that dingy corridor
for the first time
beside the 5p coffee machine
my mind, my hopes and my dreams
without all that am just a bag of
bones and flesh stuck together
the blood that run in my veins
has your colour and smell
my heart smells like your palms
no matter how much perfume I put on
it always smells like you…
So my body is not mine
but yours…
when my heart was yours
a long time ago…
