Sudipta Mishra, Puri, 16 March 2024
Miles apart we reside
But it’s the string of memory
That digs your presence in me.
A smile appears after years of remorse
Though I have buried you for never melting in your honeyed words.
It’s so strange, you see
Your absence is enough to break me into pieces
Like molten lava, all memories flow into my blood.
Causing an unusual, stirring sensation inside my body
It awakes my drowsy feelings from the sea of misery.
I have erased you many times my dear
Wiped your thoughts that had lulled me again and again.
Rubbed my heart where bruises had lived for years,
Debarred my eyes from being intimate with the moonlit night,
For the moon keeps me awake the entire night!
Spent sleepless nights for years,
As nights tempt me to dream of bygones.
Still, your messages spiral up in the serpentine lanes of my memory!
I sigh, “earth and sky can never meet like you and me!!”
