Love Punishment

I dip my palms in yellow paint,

the colour of fire,

to purify them,

of the dirty dreams of you,

they held till yesterday.

I scrape my soles,

with tincture and charcoal,

to exfoliate them,

from the flakes of,

a wrong path followed.

I cover myself in,

a black burkha,

hiding the marks,

of your physical,

infestation on my body.

I bathe myself,

in antiseptics and,

holy water to get

rid of your soul,

trapped in my heart.

I sleep on the,

bed of thorns,

at night to

remind me of not,

to love you ever again.