11/24/11

UNREAL LOVE
By K.Balachandran


A star
ten million light
years away
winked at her,
she fell in love
at that instance.

the sad star said:
'don't believe my wink
my love,
I am an illusion
dead and gone
long long ago,
you are late
at least by
ten million
light years'.


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K.Balachandran who loves to explore the sensual and spiritual aspects of love, writes love poems and short fiction in English,Malayalam and Tamil and translates between.His poems have appeared in Daily love,short,fast and deadly,Asia writes, Kritya, Browncritique, and other poetry journals and anthologies.He had a long stint in daily news journalism, which he quit to retain his love and excitement in that craft.He lives in the magical city,Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India that shot in to prominence and won world headlines when a huge treasure worth $22 billion was found in the underground vaults below the Lord Sri Padmanabha Swamy temple dedicated to Hindu God Vishnu.