Monday 8 December 2014

to catch a breath...




Silence flowed like a lost river
her banks embracing bare land, and river,
her soul still flowing like love
of a mad lover embracing waves
rising and falling inside, waves
that carry ages and ages of moments lived,
pearls of life, love--
she untied every yesterday that was she
that was life, memories--
she lay in a corner of all that is a memory
peeking from where everything is
bizarre and fading like tears rolling down,
down through a blushed cheek and
 half smiling lips tasting saline;
she lay there peeking into the corridors
where she can no longer put her steps back
where she can no longer put words back
that were lost between moments of ego and pride,
her eyes behold past
and waves of future drags at her feet;
she lay there where the floral corridor
holds her back and waves of future drags at her feet.
She lay down there in the corner staring,
imbibing, that every song begins for an end;
she lay down there in the corner
to catch a breath that the sweetness will linger.

7 comments:

  1. The sweetness will linger & so will the memories.
    She'll be ready to rise & shine & say cheese :)

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  2. she laid down there in the corner
    to catch a breath that the sweetness will linger

    At least she is not losing hope and still persists! Great lines Sreeja!

    Hank

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  3. Interesting.

    Thanks for stopping by to visit.

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  4. Hey! Tastes so much like defeat to me,or at least mourning what can't be undone, what could have been. It may have driven her into madness, though perhaps she can catch some sweetness along with her breath. Chilling.

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  5. Nicely done with great words"..thanks for sharing

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  6. May the sweetness be everlasting! Nice magpie.

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  7. "She lay down there in the corner staring,
    imbibing, that every song begins for an end;
    she lay down there in the corner
    to catch a breath that the sweetness will linger."

    beautiful composition :-)

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