The street’s deserted,
The lamps staring at us
As we try not to look at each other
It’s been a few years
A few years too many
Of hiding behind virtual doors
Until polite indifference
Replaced the angry fights
The wheels screech on the wet street
Breaking the uncomfortable silence of emptiness
Used to be love
Or so I thought
Perhaps this is love’s fate
Or most love anyway-
Some promises made
And most of them broken
Just a few moments more
Until I search my purse for the keys
Should I tell you tonight
That I did miss you…
At least at first?
But then there was someone else
To soothe my hurts…to heal me
To make me whole again
The door’s unlocked
And I turn…to look at you
Wondering why it’s so difficult to let go
Although there’s nothing left to hold on to
A thousand questions
Did we try hard enough?
Or did pride take over
Until all the rights became wrong?
You look back at me
And I see it in your eyes
The same doubts…the same questions
About a life that wasn’t meant to be
The same fear
Of the years yet to come…unpredictable
I know you feel the same emptiness
So perhaps it’s time to let go…to move on.
(Composed - 09thFeb2010)
2 comments:
dear stranger, i am an intermittent reader of your blog. i like very much some of the poetry you've written - i think you write beautifully. i do check back once in a while to see if you've written something new. since you mention lines from a story you read long back, there were a couple that were my favorites too. i read them many years back - so long back in fact that those years seem like from another life. i am including one of those below. i do hope that you'll like it. it is my way to thank you for what you write and on some days that are crazy, i am able to read and reflect upon your writings and feel happy about everything.
here is the link to this..someone has uploaded it and i was lucky to find this after so many years !!
http://www.uday.net/DoYouRemember
and here is the other one
http://dancingintherain-blueberry.blogspot.com/2011/03/story-of-love-by-ray-bradbury.html
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Dear Anonymous,
Thanks a ton...and another ton for the links.The stories were really touching and I loved them all the more for their simplicity. It is strange that you mention 'another life' in your comment because I have had a rough outline for a post on those lines for sometime now. I had hoped to write a not-so-short-story but I posted it last night as a short fictional piece. Well, so far prose has not been my forté. Hope you like it though.
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