Black Blankness Poem by Suraj Samtani

I thought I knew you.

I thought I loved you.



I thought you knew me.

I thought you loved me too.



Your hands once fondled with mine.

Your feet once walked with mine.



Your mind once met with mine.

Your heart once throbbed with mine.



Then the blood burst,

Then the breath broke.



In an instant you left.

In an instant you fled.



I tried to grasp your spirit,

But like water you still leaked.



I tried to freeze the moment,

But even from ice you still melted.



My worst fears became my only truths, &

My reality became mere illusions.



Stranger than a stranger,

You became but an enigma.



Darker than darkness,

You took away my light.



My dusk never sees its dusk.

My dawn never sees its dawn.



In your shadow,

My spirit still sleeps.



In your reflection,

My sun still slays.



From the insults of isolation, &

From the wounds of rejection.



From the bruises of anger, &

From the coma of sadness,



I remain unconscious,

I remain unidentified.



My senses are yet to be sensed.

My feelings are yet to be felt.



Shocked unto its shores,

Even the mirror shattered at my sight.



It refused to see me.

It refused to know me.



It showed me its blackness.

Like me, it's even robbed of its own blankness.