UNFORGETTABLE

Her fortitude dazzled him.

She harnessed herself to his heart,

Haunting his harmonies with her smoky voice.

Her summer-blue eyes ship-wrecked his love affairs,

Sabotaged his marriage.

Her tantalizing smile taunted him from billboards,

Tormented him from magazine covers,

Startled him in glamorous movie commercials.

Decades later, she still inspired every song,

Claimed all his awards,

Slipped between his sheets at night,

Moving over his body like a sacred whisper.

Damn you, India, he exclaimed.

Hastily packing a suitcase.

He booked a flight,

Locked his Malibu beach house.

Thirty years was long enough.