Chrysanthemum Chronicles/Anniversary Edition 2022
Remembering
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YOU DEEKSHA RAINA
I'm not missing you, no I am not. I just want to remember, the countless hours we spent listening to your shayari and my poetry. I want to muse over how we would end up talking and I would never seem to get tired, maybe it was your company or that sarcastic smile. I want to take a trip down the memory lane, how you carried that aura of the wise one, when I saw you first or in the letters that we write. I want to relish how you savoured the last bite of your paneer masala and left that thinnest layer of sambhar. I want to be tempted by the icecreams that you licked and my mushroom loaves. I want to hear the sound of your laughter and mine echoing within. I want to recall the memories of us getting clicked together, I want to giggle over your thin waist and my ticklish knees. I want to enjoy our moments during the sunsets as I sip on the orange juice forcing you to eat the fibre. I want to sway and surprise myself with the spikes of attraction and heated currents flowing in between, I want to be wooed
by the effect it left, each hug that brought us closer. I want to feel that feeling again of being relaxed, of comfort of being happy, of you. I want to breathe your breath on my face, I want to freeze your touch on my skin, I want the impression of your intellect in my mind of your love on my soul. For today is all I have, tomorrow might not come and lest I forget or choose to. Mind you! I am not a quitter but neither am I an optimist for hope is something I have given up on, a long time ago and so I want to remember, remember it all.
Deeksha Raina is a software engineer and a passionate writer, Deeksha began writing at the age of 15 and since then has published a novel titled ‘It Was Love’ and numerous poems/short stories as part of anthologies of diverse genres. She has been in on various open mics and has been invited for book reading events. Recently, she compiled an anthology titled CHASING HOPE! under Rosewood Publication. It's available on Amazon and Flipkart.
