Let’s Become Strangers!

Let’s become strangers- that’s how we started!
So, once again- let’s be strangers!
You said-’we aren’t meant to be!
I knew-you didn’t want to be with me!
So, you go ahead and ignore
My beseeching face and dead eyes!
The puzzled coldness in my smile.
And I will walk away but if required,
Greet you, most humbly
Like a cordial long –lost acquaintance
Who I don’t deign to miss!

Now, don’t think me rude,
When I choose to ignore you.
You have done that to me.
A thousand times over.
I will dismiss your approval, longing and strife
Lurking beneath your cold charm.
I won’t chide-even in jest,
When you dismiss me
Shrinking under your gaze
Shrinking under your accidental touch.
Several years in the past,
I know how foolish I’ve been.
Trusted, when I knew – You didn’t have courage
To keep promises.
Now that I wish to have different dreams,
I will ignore your eyes
As you try to avoid mine!
You said- ‘We are different!’
See, I’m agreeing with you now
We are not same!

Let’s be strangers then
Strangeness will hide your cracked Mirror
And my broken Pane!
It’s better to live and then, die
Unknown to other
For your love for me is cruelty masked!
My love for you? -Why!
You named it-Cheap, childish farce.

So, God forbid!
If our paths ever cross
I will turn away first
Lest my eyes betray the past.
And if I can’t, I hope you do
And not fake friendliness for me
Which I know you have in scarce!