Gone Forever Poem by Rajendra Nagdev

Vacant chair
desolate lawn
air
pregnant with words
still floating around
We had spent silver hours chatting here.

Doleful day dips into darkness
crimson sky declares
sun is dead.

In lonely twilight
I am denying
an undeniable truth-
he has gone forever,
I know it is lost battle
yet fighting.

He flew away to
unexplored galaxies probably,
leaving behind a mountain load of pain.

I wish to get unloaded
and don't wish to get unloaded too.

I am gyrating
in the whirlpool of time spent together
I wish to wriggle out of it
and
don't wish to wriggle out too.

A captive in his cage
must liberate myself
and drift into amnesia
but, how do I erase his memory
scribbled in indelible ink
somewhere in a deep cave of my heart?
I don't know.
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