faith

i have been phased 

down to be called 

crazy to clever

to cruel in love,

did i watch my 

parents quarrel 

too loud and harsh 

or did i misread 

their holy clause 

for how people 

ought to fall in love,

or did i wonder and

catalog some ounces 

for the cardinal faith?

i was leaving the city,

he was standing far,

rains crashed on 

our heads, goodbye,

i was reading my city,

he came close to chart 

why my heart beats fast,

hello, rains crashed 

so hard again, but in 

our hearts, we got

dissolved into some

symbols of ourselves, 

why do they lift their 

fingers like i broke

their cardinal faith?

23 years, holocaust,

befriended my past,

not a virgin, i love to

have sex in the dark,

i blurred their faith 

by the ink of spark,

perhaps the altar

was never built for me,

just the cold step stones

where the martyrs grieve,

so they laid down 

their armour to cage 

my hollow heartbeat, 

did i wipe the cardinal 

faith and flip the politics?

- chetna 🌻