Saturday, November 17, 2012

My Gone Sailor


                                        My Gone sailor


Now that you’re gone
And I sit alone in this
Darkened room; memories flash
Through my mind and
I think of you and I.

Though you never seemed real to me:
Something rising above my credence,
Yet I believed you were there.
My love couldn’t have been false.
I thought.

But now when I ponder
You seem to me nothing but,
A dream that I conjured;
A bird that has flown away,
With an unsaid promise to never return
And yet always be there.

My heart yearns for you
To come back to life.
While my eyes only sob
Going red with tears and regrets.

What was your voyage to
The dark, where I could
Not have been taken to?
Why did you have to go all alone,
Boarding in a strange ship
Into the ocean of the unknown?

But yes, certainly, I do sense
Your silent presence around,
Scrutinizing all my deeds.
And I know that you too
Can feel my spirit dancing
Around the mast of your ship.

-Riti Kumar