GRIEF Poem: A D-Decade, by Dibyangana Maji

It has been a long and quiet decade,
After the strangling goodbye I was forced to bade.
With each passing day, I find myself becoming someone new;
But I realised, I am becoming a winter morning without the dew…

You were the brightest star in the canvas of my family,
But since you left, the canvas has become so dull and empty.
You were the strongest pillar in the house of my family,
But since you left, the house has been shattered into a million pieces.

There is none to hear me out anymore,
I feed all my emotions to this paper, therefore.
It is not that I didn’t try to reach you,
But only to find that you, too, have left my ship like all my family crew…

So loneliness has become my steadfast soulmate,
We stay with each other and even go out on dates.
It is funny how my friends think I am paranoid,
When they don’t know what dwells inside me is only a soul filled with a lifeless void…

Hence I am reciting all my emotional scribbles out to you loud,
For the sun in my sky has been taken away forever by the clouds.
It rains here in my heart every hour, every minute, every second,
Yet all your footprints remain as fresh as you left, even after a d-decade…