LONGINGS AND TEARS February 17, 2010
Posted by onlycrap in speechless, Tapasya.Tags: Poems can describe what prose can't, Somethings are not supposed to happen
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I’m not a poem-person. But, in my previous post Preeti Shenoy who is an avid blogger, writer, poet, artist and above everything else a great human being brought my attention to her poem, “A longing for things that can never be”. I’ve reproduced here certain parts of the poem.
A LONGING FOR THINGS THAT CAN NEVER BE
If a tear drop could speak, this is what it would say
I yearn for a glimpse of you
It would keep me going a long way
I yearn to hear the sound of your laughter
It would give me strength to face another day
I yearn to feel the warmth of your hand in mine.
It would make me believe that nothing else mattered.
I seek out substitutes,
Looking for you in others
Hoping they will take away
A part of the longing, or at least a part of the pain
But none match up to you.
Why did you have to be so perfect?
And why can’t some things ever be?
Why is finality all binding like death?
I know you cannot answer me for you are helpless too
Despite your irrefutable love for me
Or perhaps because of it.
Unable to contain themselves any longer
Tears swell and fall
Make their way down.
At least they know where to go
Unlike me
For I am utterly lost without you.
And so, the broth brews
Billowed smoke continues rising
The tears continue falling as an outlet for longing.
A longing for things
That can never be.
© Preeti Shenoy
Reproduced with permission
dude there is one place vacant. i told u that u ll join us one day
Thanks, but no thanks. I wish I’m never get that vacancy you are talking about here.
u ll mate u ll. and even u know that. but we need a treat first