Homecoming ©

 Wayward... Ruthlessly severing, in a momentary sway,

Your gentle, loving  leashes of principles pure

Into counterfeit well-being, I'd wandered away.

I've experienced ecstasy, beguiling pleasures unbound!

But when I opened my eyes to actuality,

I craved for a stable ground.

Alas! There was none that I could find.

For some delights can just make you fly,

But don't assure a safe haven to bind.

And I fell... Onto Reality's coldest ground, maimed

Breaking every bit of my brittle soul.

Confidence deprived; honour defamed.

The one vital sense that's not yet tainted

Is a meagre flame of conscience,

That's  flickered even after rationality sordidly fainted.

With every bit, every photon of that hopeful ray

I beg; Take me back in you endearing proximity,

Repair the ties I broke; from this hell, keep me at bay...

I wish to be with you forever, I now surmise

Safe and sound, devoid of the demonic deceits

For I've wondered way too much, in a false paradise...

The Memory Lane ©

I was walking down that path tonight;

Our "Memory Lane" where we used to go out.

Suddenly, it was no longer the white streetlights

And a blithe spring evening glow came about!

Two juveniles I saw, you and me

Walking on the grass in childlike grace,

The lad knelt down, and kissed her hands

And stood up, engulfing her in their first embrace.

The field dissolved into an autumn evening.

You inched your little finger, hooking it onto mine

And a balmy kiss on my cheek you bestowed

That swept me off my feet, right onto Cloud Nine!

The evening faded into a starry, winter night;

And there you were, pulling me in haste

For a passionate goodbye kiss in the moonlit woods,

Not letting any moment of solitude go waste.

I held out my hand for you, in anticipation

When the spell of the magical past broke!

The streetlights were back, and you weren't next to me

My heart grew heavy with lovelorn yoke.

Tentatively, I looked back to trace you there

Darkness was all I saw, like the sight of the blind

And with the sigh and misty eyes, I walked away

Leaving those mellifluous memories, far behind....