Vaishali Prasad

“What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.”
― Vikram Seth, An Equal Music

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
― Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus

“My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me.
'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak.
'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?
'I never know what you are thinking. Think.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

“Unclaimed

To make love with a stranger is the best.
There is no riddle and there is no test. –

To lie and love, not aching to make sense
Of this night in the mesh of reference.

To touch, unclaimed by fear of imminent day,
And understand, as only strangers may.

To feel the beat of foreign heart to heart
Preferring neither to prolong nor part.

To rest within the unknown arms and know
That this is all there is; that this is so.”
― Vikram Seth