On Loop

In response to Aditi Rao's “If you were a Poem, you would be lyric”

Friends on Facebook,

Requests on Instagram,

‘added you’s on Snapchat,

were all so new,

when you were new. 

Guards were let down, secrets unraveled, 

phone screens bled into coffee tables,

shy smiles into midnight kisses.

then the inevitable heartbreak-

and we went back to being phone addicts-

(would’ve cringed with you at those forwards,

but I’d blocked you. Oh well.)

Loud silences and public scenes,

Taking breaks on Facebook,

Instagram captions like,

‘Single is the new chic’,

The abandoning of,

our 40-day snap streak-

Heartbreak knows no phone addicts.

Then there was-

not getting out of bed,

going through those old DMs,

and wishing,

that you were new again,

that I still wanted to win your love.