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Sunday, February 19, 2012

Unfamiliar Closures

I recognize none of what I see,
blank walls and bright cars all around me,
where is the warmth I once knew,
the smile that would be born by just the mention.         

The people seem alien, 
no comforting face to see, 
the calmness of familiarity lost,
that sense of belonging too far to even feel.            

Each day passes by, 
as though it never existed in the first place,        
listless is what I feel,away,
away from the place I can call my own.                                           

Slowly forgetting what meant most to me,
slowly unwinding to reach the shallowness of a feeling that had once filled the whole of me,  
slowly withdrawing from the surroundings that defined me,
slowly becoming one with a place that remains anonymous to me.

Cant distinguish dreams from reality no more, 
just when I start to think I'm back again, 
to the place where I feel alive like no other, 
I fall back right into the place,
the place where I never belonged at all.       

My heart yearns,my fingers clutch on 
to the so so far away dream,                 
that even a dream exists is something to live by.                     

Those days will never come back again, 
nostalgic I will be, but with an equal amount of pain
and joy in remembering the place I once knew,
the place I will always know as home.

3 comments:

Nisha... said...

Love the last 2 stanzas! And the 2nd one... imagined a filmy scene :D This once fammmmouss celeb star walks into a shooting set but no one notices or runs for autograph! aww :( :D But im sure that MS will have a new celeb then... :P

But for someone who loves being people's secret keeper and talk-anything friend... i know how much ul cry!! :D but u know... they'd cry more.

Mithil Haldankar said...

Nice poem Pretty Gal. At first I thought it was something serious you know, getting depressed I thought you were. But read the end and then understood.
Our first home always has special memories for us, but now that you have moved into a new house, it's time move on! You will have new memories in your new house! All I am saying is don't be too nostalgic! Enjoy the present day!
Cheers! :D

Preeti Ramaraj said...

@nisha: So like you to imagine such things :P and well, i will I know

@mithil: thank you..but this is more about a different place, more in relation to how it would be after i shift from mumbai to wherever, new house is as good as old house , but yes it is about moving on :)