One Year Anniversary

Does your past ever haunt you

Flashing back

Right in front of your eyes

With those horrid memories

That kept you in the dark

For days at a stretch

When you didn’t eat

Or sleep

Or breathe

And ceased to exist?

Do you ever feel fatigued

And so worn out

So drained

That your humanness

Dries up

And all that is left of you

Is a spiritless body

Forcing itself

To function

But cannot?

Do you ever feel

Your sunny day

Overcast by dark skies

Takes away the laughter

From your being

When you suddenly hark back
And that stabbing pain

In the torso

Returns with gloom

And sorrow

Remorse

Chagrin?

It’s been ages

Since it ever happened

Your past way behind you

But suddenly it comes back

And you remember how you felt

And you don’t want to feel that way anymore

But yet you do

Of Broken Strings and Nostalgic Contemplations

I remember how we laughed

At the ‘best friends’ that broke apart

I remember how we laughed

When ‘true’ friendships that collapsed

But look at where we are

Yet another pair of ‘best friends’

That broke apart

And yet another ‘true’ friendship

That collapsed

I remember how we promised

To let nothing take us away

I remember how we promised

To stand beside each other

Till death did us apart

But now how it deteriorates

The relationship we once shared

All that is left of it now

Are the broken fragments

Of the strings that once held us together

The memories

Good and bad

Shall last for ever

But what lasts of us now

Are two people

Who acted like lovers

But do not look each other’s way anymore