Wednesday, April 29, 2009

The Painting

The gleam in her eyes bespoke my memories,

I melt in the coldness they now possess

We shared a bond above the untold

Broken now by the mortal ties


But here I capture her all alive

Walking in the shadows of death

She still smiles whenever I look

Beholding her speech beneath that stifled breath


A dream I lived with her as a part

Each stroke of mine relives the past

Erasing the fact–what comes shall depart

With love I lived; with memories it would last


She defines the unblemished creation

Sitting beside a river, her fingers break the flow

A dress so white paints her sanity

The satin darkness pays a bow


Her beauty reflected on the water

Is disfigured by the unruly ripples

I touch the reflection, my thoughts waver

Fighting the fear of losing forever


I paint in grief, with colors so dull

As murky memories rain on me

My hands red, my vision blurred

I stand in pain as I see


Holding my tears, I close my eyes

Waiting to see something unknown

I found someone beside the river

Closer to her, I saw a figure,

Wrapped in blood, was my own..

3 comments:

Anand said...

You know for the people who love or who ever loved, it makes them easier to feel and express. You showed an example of the same. The thing noticable in your writings is that you color yourself in the thoughts of your subject and what comes alive is a brighter rainbow defining its mark in the mighty skies.

Gautam Shahi said...

Poetry, they say, is at its best when a poet can pull out his/her most virgin emotions and make them flow through his/her pen.
Beautiful poems. Hope to read more of them.

sanjay said...

beautiful.u write so well,good that you have grown up now..