Like a Chalice

 A Ghazal in English

I swayed in silence, bound by your malice —
Yet every glance was kind, like a chalice.

No vintage aged within my veins,
Yet your eyes poured time like a chalice.

No lips had moved, no verse declared,
Still vows were sealed, designed like a chalice.

Your lashes fall — the twilight bends,
And dusk is redefined like a chalice.

The hush you leave when you depart
Holds absence well-aligned like a chalice.

Reflections tremble in your gaze,
Truth shimmers, cold, refined like a chalice.

I drink what silence dares not say —
Each pause a truth assigned like a chalice.

Now Prashant writes in muted tones,
And bleeds what love had signed like a chalice.