#fusion

{Alap}  
 Someone lies beside him,  
 close, but never there.  
 He walks away quietly,  
 ready for a secret journey.

He closes his sleepless eyes.  
 He calls her, as he always does.

{Sthayi 1}  
 She comes back,   
soft and slow.  
 A breath.  
 A sound.

A little boy,  
 caught inside   
a grown man’s body.

{Sthayi 2}  
 For twenty-seven years,  
 she keeps returning near.  
 A little boy keeps calling,   
inside a wandering dream.

A little boy,  
 caught inside  
 a grown man’s body.

{Antara}  
 The little boy remains within…  
 trapped and high…  
 The little boy remains within…  
 with his hippie girl…