Lost and Found Notice

Your love for me now is nothing but a lost advertisement!
You are now the greatest absence in my life.
Each cell of my body stays busy warring with your repulsion.
Following Newton's law, action by reaction, my feelings today lie ravaged.

I am now excessively drawn to a single 'you.'
I am truly disgusted with myself, seeing this addiction to you.
I want to be free! I want you to be free too!
I have always forbidden love tangled with pain!

In the heat of Chaitra...
And the rains of Shravan.
Our love is of the dark fortnight...
And the melancholy of the bright.

That I would have to live without you—such a thing was never spoken!
Of course, words exist only to be broken, never to be kept!

Your busy city remains as busy as before, many times over!
Only lost...the happiness of us both...in this sudden change.
Every day, somehow, some disobedient pain keeps entering.
Yet in this city of completeness, some sudden emptiness still occurs!

On every broken wall of the post office
clings an imprint of my pain without you.
That every letter I write is only about you—
though that foolish mailbox doesn't know it,
every broken wall knows it just the same!

I am now learning to stay well
in a mirage called 'you'...in the time's demand to set you free.