A Second!!!

I walk with her.

I feel overjoyed, so full of contentment.

She beside me makes me complete,

I can feel the butterflies flutter in excitement.

We walk for some time,

She needs to go home.

But I am not ready

To let her alone.

She pleads and I give in

I drop her to the station.

We wait for the train

In silent gratification.

The trains are late.

In a while, a train arrives

Too much rush,

But the crowd she braves.

The train starts moving.

We bid our goodbyes.

Unable to move my eyes

From where my prized possession lies.

A SECOND…..  a second later.

I hear a thud, a faint thud.

But I don’t pay heed

Because inside me dreams bud.

Moments later, I get a call.

The call which changed me.

A call which destroyed everything.

A call which made a person, an incomplete me.

The train, the thud.

My love, gone forever,

Never to return.

Too stunned to move or shudder.

Too stunned, too shocked

To grasp what I just heard,

“She Is No More…..”

By the thought itself I shuddered.

I walk home in a daze.

My family, all grieve.

I call her repeatedly,

But no one to receive.

Then in my room

I sat, seeing her picture.

A picture of us.

And something inside me tore.

I was torn apart.

She was gone.

A part of me died…

A part of me lived on…

I am like a limp person.

My backbone’s gone.

She was my backbone.

She was the one who lead me on.

I grieve, I cut off contact,

I starve, I stay awake.

I can’t bear to listen to songs.

I can’t even walk.

I am destroyed.

The scene of her dying,

Burnt to char,

Pierced with metals stinging.

She surrounded by the dead.

Her limbs missing.

Her calls for help,

Her life slipping.

Her being burnt.

Her ashes being scattered.

Her wishes incomplete.

Her ambitions unconquered.

I miss her a lot.

I miss my alarm.

I miss the one

Who could make me calm.

I miss you my daughter,

I am unable to cope up

With the very fact that,

You are gone, gone forever, never to show up…

The gorgeous smile of yours,

Will never ever  light up your face.

Those twinkling eyes of yours,

Are closed forever in your face.

I am longing to see you

Prancing about around the house.

Today that house

Is all messed up, in a great chaos…

You came into my life,

Changed my way of thinking…

Altered my outlook towards life,

And gave my life a new meaning.

As you left me here alone,

My thoughts are a slur.

My outlook towards life

All vague and a blur…

All I wanted to say,

At that very end moment

Which fate did not allow,

Stealing it away, leaving me in disappointment.

“I Love You the most, my Teenager.

You are my STAR…

My cute daughter, my cradle of hope

Gone….. Leaving me only a SCAR…”

————— A grieving father

SRISHTI SHETTY

SYJC (B)

Mulund College of Commerce