I Will Follow You into the Dark

For once

maybe

I wanted

to live

to dream

to die

altogether

in a click

in a wink

in a beat.

And

unknowingly

he had me

breathing

day-dreaming

melting

all at once

in that piercing gaze across the room

in that "Hi" he broke ice with

in that embrace he enveloped me in.

Love

I once leapt in arms of

eying him in awe

it was homecoming

it was uncanny

it was an irony

as he was

my savior

my destroyer

my one last long con.

Today

broken and lost
as everything in me echoed a certain

hurt

hate

hopelessness

My name in his voice

shut the world

shut me up

and spoke my heart:

"YES."

© 2012 Neha Choudhry