Putting Behind Past. Poem by ritty patnaik

your image haunts me,
takes me to
another land.,
where moonbeams
throw light at the red rose,
which smiles with
scented love.

haunts me,
in soft afternoons of spring
also, in the hot afternoons
of summer.

it has become difficult,
to bear, the early monsoon drizzle
which brought us together..

now in the pouring rain,
i look for you,
at riverside and streams,
trying to find your face,
in the mirror of flowing water! !

in a foggy morning,
in the thick of winter,
you haunt me,
when i lie in thecarpet of grass,
counting days and months,
and wished,
time to pass in a flicker! !

the rose petals, have fallen
and scattered,
in love it is impossible to forget,
nobody does,
so i learn a lesson to bear,
what cannot be endured..

when the mirror of the mind breaks,
it breaks forever.
what pleasure to put it back.

i am told, the image, will
dissapear with time.
my broken heart will mend,
and i should make a good start
with new life
and new hopes.