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In Life We Shared and In Death We Part

Dew drops fell on my eyelids,

as I lay upon dampened ground

I sighed and looked heavens up astound,

wishing for the pain to cease

I wiped my brow of all crease

with dismay my mind wonders

If it really is she that is yonder

Against the golden glow

her warm sight comes in a flow

a phantasmal being

that is as yet real

For now I can only dream

and so strong that I can feel

but all is not what it seems

though as much I yearn and dream

I can only lay in sin and shame

discover you will that it was glory and fame

that leads to your dismay

I wake up abrupt  and say

A dream so accurate and real

that I could smell perfume and scent

just from a dream

just from a dream

I can feel so cold

after you made me so bold?

My story I recited for all to hear

not full with half a page atear

a watermark of my pain

and the gurgling well you hid within

A wall was built

under the satin quilt

burrow deep inside

you warmed me here there and on all sides

in the night as we cried

each other's tears we gently dried

I awake to see the former image

you adorn it with hackneyed adage

to remember the loss I feel

nevertheless you tingled deep my skin and teal

Even though I saw you weren't real

I knew you were there though ethereal

My life sucks but yet surreal

from dream to wake you have gone from cake to bake

Lost all reality within walls so fake

aha! That icing and flake on which I did take and retake

to feel sick from overindulgence

till the dream soured as much as you had done

for now I take this gun

let me also have one

for in life we shared and in death we part

its time my dream bird that we say adieu and depart.

Copyright © Shishir Gupta | Year Posted 2009

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