"You will seek other beds and alien alleys,
and make yourself lonelier with every journey,
as you dream of me in the false dawn of other arms,
not knowing me as someone with a lonely soul."
Every relationship is a journey. Where it starts is in a fuzzy past, but equally amorphous is how it ends. Because endings are never surgical cuts, but a bunch of tassels, each thread a possible way out - or way in. And that's what reality is.
Because people change. How we feel changes. What we feel changes. And just like a poem never ends but finds eternity in the heart of its reader, love changes form and finds a cosy nook to reside. It moves to find meaning in life - which might have everything to do with love, but nothing to do with a love affair.
And that's how life takes us in its palm - often with someone, often without. But there's always the walking, the movement, the bliss, the ecstasy, and the pain, the anguish, the residue, the remembrance....
It's the cross life bears - and is it's saddest but most sublime benediction.
If you liked this poem, consider listening to these other poems tenderly talking of heartbreak:
- Call Me By Your Name
- How to Hold Love as it Breaks
- Broken Ribs as a Barometer of Love
- In Which He Cries And She Clears The Skies
Find other magical things, like a lovely free chapbook of poems, and other resources here.
Uncut Poetry has started a new Podcast called Red River Sessions (on Spotify, iTunes, Pocket Casts, etc), where we will talk to published poets, about their poetry, their craft and what haunts them. It is brought to you by Red River, which is the premier independent publisher of poetry books, and Uncut Poetry.
I am Sunil Bhandari.
I am a poet based out of India. My book of poetry 'Of Love and Other Abandonments' was an Amazon bestseller. My second book is 'Of Journeys & Other Ways to Get Lost'. Both are available on Amazon.
Get in touch with me on uncutpoetrynow@gmail.com
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