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.

***********© 2018 Preeti Shenoy

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