Calculated Love

The mathematical love
Of the cunning girl
Bites and slits 
The many tube-like veins
Of your heart

The distant stare 
From across the room
Stabs daggers in your eyes
And the blood begins to flow
Like an unnatural stream of tears

In those streams floats a canoe
Ridden by an Urge
And the Urge keeps paddling
Away at the blood
Anxious to go faster and faster

And faster still
Until, the girl's cunning
Makes itself visible
To you and you then make 
Yourself visible to it 

And you realize that
She was not a girl at all
But a muddled puddle 
In which your bleeding eyes
Stare back at you

 - By Ritvij Tiwari. 24/May/22. At home, Raebareli.

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