Are you real? You are a tangent, infinitely close And yet you fade away too soon You glow awhile in borrowed light Arriving in phases, like the moon You come close only to turn away You seek and then you elude You speak with a thunderous silence You pretend, you delude. You are a puzzle I need to solve You are the question that went unasked You are the game that I can never win You are a riddle which comes masked. You exist only in imagination But the warmth of the glow is real Only time will tell if you are summer rain Or an elaborate winter spiel. 2014 Preeti Shenoy For more poems click here. Some poems have already appeared in print. Kindly do not reproduce without permission. ___________________________________________________ Buy my latest book: Amazon: http://is.gd/ Ithappensamazon Flipkart: http://is.gd/ Flipkartithappens