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posted for ONE SHOT WEDNESDAY
http://onestoppoetry.com/2011/06/one-shot-wednesday-week-50.html?
also for Thursday poets rally
http://thursdaypoetsrallypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/06/agreement-for-thursday-poets-rally-46.html


That day

I decided to break away

from my promise of ‘forever’

permanently;

not as I wanted anything new

but because I didn’t want the old.

Since then a ruptured void

 between is and was has descended.

As I departed,

my porous promise hung between us

like a raindrop frozen in mid air,

without changing shape,

without merging with Earth.

I am over you at last,

thrashing out stubborn memories

 into nothingness.

I do not miss you.

Only

sometimes, when I open the east window

and the honey colored morning fills the room

like tea pouring smoothly into a cup,

I catch myself talking to you.

At times, when I cross that familiar bent,

walking in the market,

or watching life from my verandah

I silently chide myself

for thinking of your deer eyes

and unruly hair.

When I dip my feet into the river

and follow quietly the water pattern on it

I hear our old arguments,

and my pledge -

I would die before I forget you

Often in sleep

I murmur

trying to hide a feeling

so personal
 that no one should mull over it,

not even you;

trying to grope for those

insane laughter days,

and then

waking up hastily
to my familiar lonely white walls.

Now,

in the languid rustle of the breeze

there are words of lingering lament.




I humbly accept the perfect poet award from Poets Rally

Words
 like lovers,
ecstatic,
pour on me
and gives
a few dizzying moments
and a courage to transform the world!

I nominate Eclipseofthemoon