If It Ever Finds You
If It Ever Finds You
The last episode of your favorite series
The closing ceremony of your special event
The ending note of your fond symphony
The final decay of your cherished blossom
The only drop of your chosen fragrance
The parting words of your best-loved person
The inevitable funeral of an eventful phase
All converge towards
A dark road of brooding gloom
Whereupon my feet
Follow feeling familiarity-
A road that once
Carried my hopes along
Now has yielded
Both light and warmth
To sickening silence
Of some foreign land
A heart drenched in sadness
And eyes
Like an overflown dam
Shine of steady streamy saline rivulets
Leaving their trails
On a barren face
Burning with flames of separation
Inhaling deep sighs
Releasing deep, inflated mouthfuls
Of suffocating air
For strength and diversion from
Feeling nauseous
For not being able
To swallow events
Reeking pain and despair
Unfinished feeble utterances
Swaying in waves
Of trembling voice
To call off the verdict
She so placidly
Thrust upon my understanding
A storm in my head
An aching in my heart
A bottle of pain
And a night to gulp
And with every night passing
The bottle refills
Only to be emptied
For another refill
Wept in volumes
And wept I alone
In melancholic mood
And moment of grief
And walked
And halted
And walked
I treaded the same road
Did all the same too
Yet it stopped returning me you
Oh, Dearest! Come back to me
I can't see you no more
Your being in vicinity was a luxury
I possess no more.