And then...

I’m waiting, like I always did...

We’re separated time and again, unwilling

And the time passes by, away and far across

Out of sight, never out of mind or heart

Dry days crawl through, seasons revolve

And then, I could’ve said the ‘I miss you’

Or posted on my timeline or your wall

Tagged an old pic, or sobbed a tweet

But then, I choose to do what I do coz I can’t shut or shove these thoughts

And then, we meet

I show you this, and look beneath your smile

We’re together, back to our cores for just a while

Until another day

That manipulates and lures us to drift and depart

And then, I’ll come back to seek a pen

Look across the bowing branches, sneezing with the wind

I go back to scribbling an ode

But then, I fold that leaf that peeked and hide

For another while...

Silence...

You haven’t slept, yet. You've turned away 

I see you’re sobbing, I say sorry 

You don’t listen or respond

You keep crying, make me guilty

Of the vows that I took, and promised not to cause you sadness

To see that you always smiled and were taken care

At times I fail, like a human. While this bond is much beyond

I caress your soft hand and you pull back to rub your wet eyes

I gently touch your cheeks from behind and plant a kiss

You shove my hand away 

Silence prevails

I have said sorry once, I can’t go on. My ego gets hurt

I wait for you to turn back and hug me, with acceptance

But just silence prevails

Sometime later you turn back and check on me

If I was really snoring, when I was

And I try to touch you another time, while you were deep asleep

A whole night is thus spent.

The moon waited outside to see us make up

The trees sent some leaves through the windows to show they cared

But the night didn't wait. It ran out in silence

A hot Sun pierced from the horizon

I see that you had woken up, to get my breakfast

I look at you, you look at me

And the love can’t be paused anymore

We break promises each day, yet make new ones

Not another night, we shall spend apart

But like a cycle’s wheel, that night is here again

I turn everywhere in darkness, not to find you anywhere…

Only, silence prevails

One Day...!

One day I would just be walking alone, not knowing anyone around.

No friend, nor foe! Everyone has disappeared; don’t know where they have gone.

I see empty roads, long deserted, dead.

I feel like I’m inside a box, or an aeroplane with 500 empty seats hung in the sky, closed and buried.

There are only a few passers-by. They don’t recognize me, nor look in the eye.

I say hello, they don’t react. Go back to your own people, they yell.

Is it amnesia or Alzheimer’s I wonder!

Those whom I loved aren’t found.

A moment of breeze and everyone’s dead. How could that be true?

Should I mourn their demise, I ponder. It’s strange and peculiar.

Like a dreadful dream, a horror movie, shrilling nightmare.

I refuse to believe it’s true, I fail to accept that it’s real. Many days pass and nothing changes.

Time is ticking, I’m breathing, and I’m awake. Everything else is standstill. The earth around me is paused.

Then I look at the wandering faces closely. Touch each of the soul that pass-by. They don’t look human

One face however feels familiar; I take long to place it.

The face has smiled - an emotion that I have forgotten.

It reads a greeting with warmth. I walk close and wave at the face, like touching.

I suddenly feel some jolt.

Are you ready, the mouth stuck to that face utters and raises the eye-brows!

Its eyes have turned red, and bleeding. The teeth have emerged out, grasping like a shark.

I know you, I know who you are. I had fought, we had fought long ago. We were younger then, of same age, studied together and then worked at the same place. Most importantly we hated each other! I had hated you.

When everyone else has disappeared, why did you come to me? I question.

It roars, the whole face is now red. I can’t say if it’s a face anymore.

Welcome to the hell it says and disappears. My heart rate has raised and dipped.

I have always loved everyone around me and when I don’t see even one of them, why do I have to face the only one person that I hated?

Be glad, it was just one, a voice echoed. And once again, a void filled.