My Paramour

I can see you..
And I know that you see me too..
But you act oblivious of the fact,
That I've got my eyes on you..

For long I've held a notion,
That maybe I'm not good enough..
You obviously have many lovers..
Much well endowed and like lions on their turf..

But I also know this,
That you are no mistress of just the rich..
You may pleasure the haves with all you've got..
But you also humour the have nots, as if they have a shot..

Some day I'm going to give in to temptation..
And make you all mine to keep..
Some day, Mumbai, I shall claim you..
Even if it's a price too steep..


Inspired from Namdeo Dhasal's poem "Mumbai, Mumbai, My Dear Slut" (quoted in Gyan Prakash's Mumbai Fables).