Adreyo Sen- A Poem

Dear Reader

You are my first and only reader.

You look at me with warm eyes.

But you do not critique me

or search my gladness in your gaze

for a subtext

to imprison me with.

In your arms, I am a story

whose ending muted soft

by the intensity of your love

is full of a wondering happiness.

Release me and I am

but the chaos of a passage.

Not knowing where I begin,

I never know how to conclude myself.

So hold me and let your kisses

render me less than a story,

more of air

than the most lyrical poem.

Let me be a phrase you hold forever,

or the full stop to your search.

Subsume me till I am no text at all,

just the rhythm to your love.