On Innocence Loss

Poem on loss of Innocence in pandemic 

To my door came one day 

A long cloaked singing man.

And sing he did as my ears lay

  A song so bitter yet enthralling sweet 

It led my out of my cave

  I stepped out, but I heard a voice say

 "Please stop, or we shall never meet."

"In your heart I am a stream,

   With me, you see the stars and moon

And with me the sky of many colors

   And the hopes and a rainbow dream.

Take me along, or this shall end soon."

Few steps ahead I saw the door 

  The door to my heart close forever

Shutting the paradise, I was to visit never.

  Now at last I see the darkness in light

The darkness 'she' had kept in dark.

  I see the fog drift apart..apart

To give way to bitter truths and broken tears

 And of cruel smiles and terrified fears.

She is almost gone, I hear her crack

 I feel my chest tear apart 

I look around to see the world

 This world, far from the one I knew

No! I scream, tis isn't the world where I grew.

I look around to see her gone

  As things begin to make more sense

Yet I feel the hollow entrapping pain

  And those forced smiles and lied truths hence

 Now grieve the loss of her- Innocence!

And at last I look above with hope,

 But the stars from the window that shone,

Now hide behind the clouds of gloom.

  And so has gone the Moon

Perhaps in the sea, to hide her tears alone.

Nothing left, I follow the melody strange,

  The steps ahead for all my coming years 

A step ahead, and then in dark valley

  In the valley of broken dreams and tears

A song on the wind that swept light

  My heart may faint within the night

Yet I follow, and follow in search of bright.