Quarantine lover

5 days have passed by since the whole nation went into lockdown, and still, I can't imagine how would I spend left of the days without you by my side. I know I know people will think it's a very clingy thing to say, but somehow that has become our reality, isn't that so? Before things got worse, we at least had our terraces as a date place. I use to stand on my terrace and you on yours. We waved hands at each other like old school lovers would do when they weren't allowed to go out as freely as much as we are allowed to do in this generation. Now we aren't even allowed to go to the terrace because it's not safe anymore. It has become airborne. We are quarantined in our houses in our rooms. Waiting every day, every second for this pandemic to leave our lives so we can go back to being normal.

It rained today, and the smell of earth seems so tempting for a person like me whose beautiful memories are etched in this odor. Our first fight, and apparently our first kiss, our tapri ki chai all those memories paved the path of nostalgia for me to dwell into. I hug my teddy thinking of you, as you would hug me if I was near you.

Our phones use to keep us intact, but the waves of signals seem to be fading out now. And the anxiety has started hitting me. The anxiety of not being able to be in contact with you, of not being able to get your virtual kisses, your virtual hugs, your daily photos of you making faces just to make me laugh because that's the only thing right now keeping me sane.

I am starting to wonder how did people did that in the old times, how would they wait patiently for their lover with no sign of them nothing to hold onto, no messages, no daily photos, no virtual hugs. How, just how? But then I realized they had memories of each other as we do, that kept then yearning for each other, gave them the strength to wait patiently until the time arrives and they have crossed every hurdle to see each other again, be with each other again, hold each other again, kiss each other again. And this is exactly what I am going to do, wait for it to pass as I type this message to you.

Keep my memories with you,

As I keep yours,

Until tomorrow

When the sun will rise

And the moon shines together

Brighter in the sky,

And the quarantine takes its last breath

We will meet again

As lovers

Yearning for each other

In the agony of distance

With love in our heart

And tears in our eyes

We will hold each other

And kiss again

Hold my love, my lover

Just until tomorrow.