A Painful Omission Poem by DILIPBHASKER MATHRA

Why did you come
After the lapse of boundless years?
The path which you left
Years behind still remains
Dark and dull.
On that path I am lying dismally
Like a skeleton shadow.
I think
You came here atlast
To console this scallywag.
The Sun, the moon and stars
Died in my life long ago.
Yet, I remember, those were
The days of harmony and joy.
The flowers blossomed then are
Dried and vanished
The hopes nursed were simply nugatory.
I couldn’t expect
The dream we wove together
Would shatter by avalanche of misfortune
That time is past
But those mournful events haunting
Yet my memory
Though I questioned your scandalous attribute
You scoffed me as a scoundrel
And left to seek immoral pleasure
Leaving me in slackness.
And now you come to reconcile
I would believe
The derelicted relation
Can never be restored again.
The past never comes
Nor can bring back
Not even for a moment.
Thus I should prefer to have
Parted my way from you
This omission is for ever
To relieve my mind from further obligation.