Tag: loss
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Oh! How I Miss Touching God's Perfection
#Villanelle Each passing day, I crave for your affection, A glimmer of tears lines my eyes. Oh! How I miss touching God’s perfection! My eyes, smitten and mesmerised by your reflection. My heart aches, and in heaviness sighs. Each passing day, I crave for your affection. Rubicund cheeks, lucid skin, Ah! What a complexion! Alas!…
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Elegy
The year 2020, mid December, The last moon rose, I thought. My eyes closed under the glowing Winter light, branches bathed It seemed in a ghastly moonlight. ‘The end seems near.’ My mind repeatedly regurgitated. Unceasingly the machine beeped In the hospital, Shattering the last of my silences. I thought I’d pray, if I were…
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Whisper My Name Just Once…
#Poattic-5 #Rewind A day, I thought perhaps would suffice I’d rewind the hands of Quietly fleeting time. But can a day ever suffice The love exchanged in a lifetime? *** Alas! Too soon have you left With a searing pain my heart is cleft. One half goes with you As I bid my last…
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Left With Questions…
The police came The postmortem done, pregnancy confirmed Relatives poured in Neighbours gawked Leaving us wounded with multiple Whys. Visions of….. You as a chubby baby, You as a naughty toddler You as a moody teenager You in the cusp of womanhood! Were we strict? Were we bad parents? Were we unreasonable? That you chose…