#440 Memories

 Memories

Can't label you

Good, bad or neutral

You make me travel

Through the nostalgic sequence of events 

Of a known person

Who is now a stranger to me

Those letters, those giggles

Those promises and endless calls

Are all Incoherent

Which once made my days 

Was it love , lust or fantasy

Still figuring out but in vain.

Why do you always remind me

Memories that I want to forget

Like the scent of flowers 

diffuses with passage of time

Helpless me, who already moved on 

Found out to be tangled

In the cobwebs of thoughts.

Confused me, a silly creature 

Made up of blood and flesh

Of course, brought to earth

By the superpower, who is 

Omnipresent and omnipotent

Bow my head daily to feed 

My mind with the answers

To never ending questions

Ifs, buts , when, how and why.

Why it happened 

When it was not meant

 to happen forever 

Forever is perhaps , 

hypothetical in this world

People come and go but some

leave deep scars on heart

In the end, you find the new you

Lost, broken yet shinning brighter

Because you understand peace 

with the past is vital. 

10-1-2023

Sweta Sarangi