Two Lives Poem by Praveen Kumar in Celestial Glow

You saw two lives
In single of mine,
Two leaves in the same stalk,
Two layers of the same stock,
So similar,
Yet so different,
Both ran parallel to my life,
Moved me up and down the hill
In different frames,
The same portraits,
Both raising me to real heaven,
Only to let down to grievous hell;
Showed me what I'm,
From where did I come,
Added me worth unfound anywhere,
Showed I'm not alone in this world.

You came like God
At unexpected times,
Caught unaware in pleasant surprise,
Rendered me dumb in happy shock;
When I opened eyes
You receded far,
Leaving me forlorn and badly desolate
In inconsolable grief and horrid pain,
Me groping in dark
For a streak of light
Till I notice you cross horizons
And eternnally in time dissolved,
Only to recycle again
With its rise and fall;
Why this game of mouse and cat?
How long I should endure this?

You are helpless,
Like what I'm here,
We both sail on the same boat,
Desperate to reach and blend;
But, alas, odds stand,
Topple our plans;
You're what you're, scared soon,
Vacate own seat to ease my sail;
I am left alone,
Badly torn between
Grieve day and night for the fall,
Wait for the advent you do make;
Lo, then you come,
The cycle goes round,
Our world then revolves around,
How long none know in this world.