Saturday, February 26, 2011

Expressions - The Death of Silence

 I spent the long wintry nights cuddled like a fetus
Hoping I'm safe in my mother's womb never to see another day
Haunted by memories, carrying my dead soul and a lost mind.
I feared to open my eyes and see the emptiness within me.

My hopes, my dreams, my smiles and my love, all vanished
With just one word, leaving an empty pit inside of me.
My heart that once stringed the violin for you, now abandoned.
My mind that once obsessed for you, now in amnesiatic void.

I am not me but a living zombie, needing none and nothing.
Please move on like I never existed, as I never will be.
Everything died inside of me, including my inner silence.
Your words dug my grave and your absence closed me in...


- NOT another 'simple southy'.... Just call me a Madrasi...

Keep the Cheer!!!

10 comments:

sulekkha said...

I can't comment on something so haunting and beautiful Chokher, it's excruciatingly painful and wonderful.Wow...

Sheba said...

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ~ Norman Cousins

tapas said...

Sheba, Pathos blossoms like a flower at the tip of your pen. Wonder how reconciliation and understanding would sound. God Bless.
Tapas Mukherjee

Sheba said...

Uncle ji,
Thank you for your Blessings. Will need them forever.

Anonymous said...

Amazingly well written my friend.
"your words dug my grave and your absence closed me in "....just so hauntingly brilliant!!

Sheba said...

Thank u sis!

Swati said...

Wow,wow, wow!!! This is fantastic Sheba....loved it, and sent it to a couple of my friends....It had my heart beating faster....

Sheba said...

Thanks Swati...

Rimly said...

You are so deep my friend and your poetry has such a haunting quality. It took my breath away.

Sheba said...

Rimly,
Now if you call my scribblings deep... I have to go dictionary.com and find a deeper word for your poems...
:)
Thanks my friend...