Falling In Love Drove Him To Madness

Falling In Love Drove Him To Madness, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.

When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

as he took me aside
spoke to me about
delusions despair
overpowering sadness
the madman of mahim
who had just runaway
from the state lunatic
asylum,,kabhi khushi
kabhi gham tara rum
pam pam..an imaginary
guitar he began to strum
to give him company
i pretended playing
the drum.. deleted
doomed one sided
love .. till she gave
a kick on the bum
the flesh was willing
the spirit went numb
in love it is better
to be mute deaf dumb
living off her crumbs

the madman of mahim
lost everything his last days
living it out in the slums
among the lesser denizens
the living dead and scum
a loaf of bread some rum
no he will never be under
her teeny weeny twiddly
thumb....thus i parted
from his street kingdom