Modern Love Poems: You Fill Up a Room with Heart by Shrutee Choudhary

[Note from Frolic: We’re so excited to welcome poet Shrutee Choudhary back to the site. She’s sharing more of her breathtaking modern love poems with us!]

1 ) you fill up a room with heart

and when you step out of the door

it falls apart

it’s just four walls and vain furnishing

a box, awaiting some meaning

I guess what I’m trying to say is

you fill up my heart

so maybe, don’t leave?

2) It still feels like yesterday 

and a million years ago

when I melted into your arms 

the way snow melts, when it rains

my lips turned to ash

the red in me began to live

within your veins.

I know it’s summer now

but the scent on your sweatshirt remains

so I make my room go really, really cold

just so I can sleep close to you again.

3 ) the night before I left for home

you kissed me softly, reminding me

that it won’t be long until 

we’d be back together again

hands clasped, bodies entangled

and while I was gone

you promised to send me a song

one for each day

it has been sixty five days

of being without you

and I bet they don’t write songs

about the situation we are in

so do I write one?

something about the weather

being stormy for three months 

submerging everything that is 

outside

something about time being 

bipolar, countries being at war 

the poor dying

something about a tiny something 

invisible but infectious 

like the brackets around your smile

and I, drawing a warm bath

of privilege, standing on a ledge 

screaming your name

until my phone makes a sound

and it’s one of your songs again.