You and Me

This is a very special poem for me. For the first 4 lines I thank my dearest friend Susan Joseph.

You: Saw you this morning
With that look in your eyes…
I hate to see you looking,
Lost and lonely…

Me: My mind is grazing
Idly upon despair.
I fail to retrieve harmony
And my core seethed in pang.
Someone led me through
The silver fields of rapture
And flawed my love,
Upon the flowing rails one day…
Beneath the gray clouds,
I sat and wept forlornly.

You: A tear drop veils your face
From my vision.
Past then became a haze
That kept shadowing my mind.
And my wings are tied with
The strings of misfortune.
I long to free them,
And plunge into the pain in your eyes.
But I bear in my soul,
The burden of my history.

Me: My love was a flower
Which withered away.
But the odour remained
To bedamn the moments down.
No ray of hope
Ever struck my oriel.
Cuddling my pallid dreams
And silent ails,
I pass my days in exile
In the clink of decay.

You: Life took me through days
Where sun never rises.
I jaunted through
The garden of earthly delights.
Then beheld your footprints
In the sand behind me.
Failing to find them,
I savored the essence of
Repression and amnesty
And dozed off.

Me: The lunatic imprisoned in me
Rises in rebellion.
Following a laughter,
I burst into tears!
Dark sea is roaring
In front of my eyes.
Deep asleep in me is my vision
In the table of accessories,
I’m searching for
An instrument of painless death.

You: I’m burning in the thought
That you are alone…
Why cannot I be near?
Why cannot I do anything for you?
Will your eyes shower
The tears of clemency?
Will your credence
Return to me forever?
With prayer on my lips
I await your riposte.

Me: I’ll come sailing
The vicious sea of time
Passing the tower of relics
Covering light years.
With tattered dreams in my soul
And ravaged vision in my eyes.
Will your arms shroud me,
Within the warm ramparts of compassion?
Will you offer me the love,
I long for eternities?

You: Wait beneath the rainbow
I swear you my love!
Let the gleam of my eyes
Be your salve.
Let it be with you,
In all your solitude.
As the gloom of fall
Crimsons your cheeks,
To give wings to your dreams
I’ll come.