Illegal entrants

This is a poem which I wrote for Conde Nast Magazine. They had commmsioned me to write poetry on the theme of Travel, and I wrote four poems for them.

Here is one of them.
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Restlessness 

Desire 

Longing 

Are now constant companions 

Travelling with me

Within me

They have made themselves comfortable

They arrived as tourists

On a travellers  visa

But somehow managed to linger on

No force could banish them

My heart , my thoughts

Are yours now

My soul

Subsumed, consumed, blazing

Burning 

I live in restless hope

I  longingly dream 

Of making the journey

Across the miles

The desire to be with you 

And to linger on.

Just like my  travelling companions

I hope

To stay

Till eternity 

In your arms.

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© 2018 Preeti Shenoy

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