open relationship

He: I love you.

She: You talking to me?

He: Don't eavesdrop when I am talking on the phone.

She: Go to another room when you want to talk to your love. Not in the bedroom.

He: Geez...

She: I love you too.

He: Did you say something?

She: Shoo...

He: So, you can phone in our bedroom and I can't? Ok, ok, I am going.

She: Not to you, silly. He was hanging around.

daddy

"You should let them fly the coop," a family friend advised. I wanted to ask if I had restrained her in any way.

There were the bitter moments when I thought I should not have helped her in any way. I had written letters to the MEA with regard to the complications concerning her passport and sorted it out. I had written to everyone I knew who could help her settle out there.

It was the gentler moments that hurt me more; taking her shopping for bags and clothes; and, the quiet dinner later.

I saw daddies there, with my kind of look, helping daughters find the right bag or winter-wear; smiling, sliding into the shadows, holding back the tears, listening to the excited young lady across the table, the lady who was still his little girl.

It is nothing new, I consoled myself then. 

The fight the day before her flight was expected.

At 10 pm, at the airport, she waved and went inside the terminal. I walked back to the parking lot, alone. I knew then I had lost her.

Even she must have realized it when she whispered, "I love you, my darling husband."

rights

A democracy
With beggars for rights, left nought,
Is not that, never!

chance

Given second chance,
The same life I would have tried.
That's tragicomic.

halo

"Is that all," It asked,
"Too little faith, or too much?"
Its halo flickered.

ask

Lick me there, she said.
I licked, here and there. (O where?)
Ask! For right climax.

choke-hold

In between her legs,
It could have been erotic,
But for her choke-hold.

love with bad luck

She brought bad luck too.
Perfectly balanced the love.
Thus, fact not fiction.
 

past with no future

I love her a lot.
There's the past, no future though.
I loved her a lot.