I Lost You 

Here’s an evocative love poem of longing and loss, by Ketaki, exclusively for Different Truths.

I lost you today.
We lost each other in the rain,
In the needle-like drizzle,
In the floods that followed the tsunami of hurt,
In the cyclone of miscommunications,
In a tornado of emotions and words.
I lost You…
More than I can tell you or reveal,
A loss of communication,
When I had thought,
We had the soul of boundlessness.
How did we become strangers?

I cannot contain this in my tiny heart,
It now echoes emptily,
In the four tiny chambers,
Tearing and bursting suddenly…
Neither in my swollen red eyes,
Were the streaming tears contained?
Our love, it seems, is now,
Like an overblown scarlet rose,
That shed its petals.
Forlorn pieces lay on the wet earth,
Discarded bits of feelings and hurt.
Will I ever pick up the pieces,
Ever again…

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