Saying Goodbye...

Wrote this more than year back, somewhere in the wee end of 2017. Farewells are never easy and every time another friend leaves, it just gets more and more difficult to say goodbye. Atleast this time the goodbye is merely physical, as only the distances have increased, but the bonds remain strong.

The heart turns a heavy turn
As the road ahead becomes a blur
That's when I realise there's a tear
Waiting to drop, will burn my cheek I fear
Why this weight I do not understand
This journey I wish to make backward
This is how one feels at the gates
I shall sit, shall yearn in quiet, I'm afraid
The act of bidding adieu has never been easy
Hurts even more for you, my friend
As time with you hasn't been very long
And my eyes wish to hold you even at the end
To sit beside and tell you stories
With gay abandon I wish to talk
Wish distances were just numbers to do away
And I be at your door at the next knock
Hold onto my memories I ask
For I grasp at every string with each hand
In search of lines that lead to you
And follow it till land's end.

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Rajanbabu Pune said…
Very good. Your rhythmic flow of words still has not lost the empathy of the basic theme.
August 1, 2019 at 6:35 PM
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