Turquoise Heartbreak

It's been a long, long day,

with its set of fascinating discoveries

and heartbreaking epiphanies,

a smoke ring, for example,

can exemplify a life's century;

a wound long healed, unscarred,

can carry phantom pain within;

a trace on the surface of grass,

moves it to a shiver,

a ripple can crush a butterfly,

happily resting her new wings,

when,

crushed in the cruel heat,

she seeks to rush to someplace cool,

but concrete seems to be her gravestone,

and she spreads her wings 

one last time,

embracing her lover, 

the cosmetic grey soil;

her turquoise luster

engulfed in a bone-crushing kiss,

burning her

in a rapturous goodbye

©Geetakshi Arora

April 29, 2014