Happy Us

Staying in my room all day long,

Laying in my bed, wondering how the distance between the fan and ceiling seems so huge, yet so little,

And occasionally sighing at my long, scary shadows on the wall,

The books and unfinished assignments towering up so high,

A thin layer of cobwebs making it look awkwardly haunted,

Turning the volume up just to drown the sound of my parents’ constant yells,

Yeah, trouble in the paradise ain’t one bit entertaining,

 And sometimes playing the songs that I don't particularly like on loop until I feel numb,

Gorging on the leftovers because my stomach doesn't know how to stop growling,

Standing in front of the mirror more often than I should,

Only to remind myself how ugly I look,

With my sticky, smelly hair hanging over the shoulders clumsily,

 All the acne making no effort to be discreet, And the fats piling up on my curves with almost a sense of vengeance,

Oh, Thanks to my irregular periods!

Ain't attending calls from my friends,

Because their insatiable interest in boys, and their endless curiosity about my lack of interest in them, annoy me

The wiser ones stay away, knowing that I'm different

And then you happened,

Squeezing in through the cracks in the doors of my heart

Which I had never held open for anyone, before,

Smiling down on me like an angel,

Only that the curvy body of yours holds more beauty and lust than all the angels in the heavens taken collectively,

The first time I met you in the History class,

I knew you were different too,

Because when my hand brushed against yours,

 I saw your body tense up,

And felt a wonderfully lethal electric pulse pass through mine.

We texted all through the nights,

Only to sit shoulder-to-shoulder, holding hands under the bench in the school.

That day when you walked into my room, and we sat down on the bed facing each other,

I saw in your eyes the face of a sweet, lovely girl, smiling gleefully,

That’s when I felt beautiful for the first time ever,

And then, we kissed,

Yes, my room was still filled with  the stench of the leftovers,

The tower of the unfinished assignments still remained high and intact,

I could still hear my parents yelling, over the jazz the music system was playing,

But all of these didn't matter when we were caught in the tight, heavenly embrace, our bare souls getting entangled passionately,

All the tall monuments, mighty mountains, deep, beautiful valleys, blue, wide seas, and all the great inventions of the world seemed belittled compared to the intensity of our raw, crazy love.

When we finally broke our embrace,

I was crying, crying out of joy,

As you wiped my tears, you whispered softly into my ears, “Even when the whole, wide world crumbles down, even when the humanity dies away, we will stay this way, smothering each other with infinite love”

And then we kissed again.