Where I Left My Shadow
Often
the wind blows strong, unknowingly,
Entering
through the windows without knocking ever,
Turning
the pages unturned for long, it rests there,
In
the silence of my heart, still treasured as mine,
The
love letters and more, those glory days of ours’,
Safe
in the most clandestine place on earth,
The
breeze the flirtiest, and the mightiest,
Seeks
never permission, today it stirred again,
The
sweetness of the lost time, sitting on my window,
Gazing
at the blue sky, I am much bewildered,
The
nights and day are just passing by,
Eyes
are still waiting, more than I,
To
see once and again, the face on the mirror,
Reflecting,
where I stood once and you gazed,
We
talked in silence thousand words of love,
Beckoning
to what our hearts desired, you touched,
My
soul, the essence of your love is still lingering,
On
my whole, my soul, I imbibed into you,
Hollowness
and void this place seems on surface,
And
deep within, leaving was an easy way out,
Still
for hours I look at the mirror to get a glance,
That
known face or that stranger’s image perhaps,
I
am here so caught and wrecked, sharing this space,
I
desired to with you, only a male body now surrounds me,
My
fight with time has shaped into a battle,
Two
bodies draped into the garment of thorns,
Bruising,
tearing cutting each other’s flesh,
A
mute victim in the house of God, I ask oft,
Perhaps,
the answers are much silent or my prayers,
She
is not the woman anymore in the mirror,
I
am, she had long gone along leaving me behind,
The
doors are locked and jammed, I tried hard,
To
escape this rape, from vicious web of life,
Envious
me, I scourged her who left me and this
Abyss
along with you, now I am just a body without soul,
Wandering
often! Places, where I left my
shadow................................................
*Monalisa
Joshi*
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