I Still Remember... Poem by vaishnavi raghuraman

I still remember the morning when
You stood so elegantly at the end of the aisle
To fasten our hearts in Holy matrimony
To begin the journey of our life...

I still remember the morning
When you first saw me wake
The sweetness of last night’s ecstacy
Still gleaming in your eyes..
Dishevelled…lusty…u sat at the bed’s foot
Consuming me with ur warm gaze…

Oh all those dawns i recount vividly
When our love did grow so splendidly
With each passing day
With each passing night
Our passions did achieve unworldly heights

Oh i still remember the morning
When i first held our firstborn child
With sparkling eyes that shone so bright
You saw me still through those eyes
Those tender fingernails that bit my skin
Everytime that i held him
Brought back to me
What our dear love had created....

I still remember all those mornings
When we rushed him to school
Yet our weary love did never cease
Amidst the doings of many a things

Every night when i saw myself
Shining in your eyes
My love.., oh honey..blossomed to unfathomable heights
Tis was the rosy life that i saw
When you embraced me everytime
Every smile, every touch
Every word, every quest
Did become so wonderful
As was never before for me..

So lost was i in our love
I never saw what was coming...
With every waking hour
Had i become so acustomed to your presence
That when you went so quickly...
I was still dreaming of you my dear..

I still remember the morning
When i lay down beside you
Seeing you sleep so serenly
Memorising your every cleft & plane
I waited for those eyes to see me again
Make me laugh with that old naughty grin
But alas! It never did happen again...

So quietly, so silently
He exited my life
Taking away a part of my soul
To some unknown site
With you i buried my heart forever
Lost my laughter & bloom forever

Evertime i breathed this air
It choked me with some unknown fear...
Every night when i closed my eyes
You came to haunt me, oh why!

Oh weary life, let death take me please
To unite me with my sweetheart so dear...
Oh please, oh please

With every passing day i wished
To be enveloped in the arms of death
To be again near you
To laugh & smile & share everything....
Why oh why, treacherous life
Couldn’t you be generous again...! !

I remember the morning when
With a heavy heart
I saw another new dawn.
So misty were my eyes with tears
I almost thought you just weren’t there
You stood there with arms open wide...calling me tenderly....
With every step i took, the Paradise unfolded before me
Where ther’ll now be, only you & me...

Thank god for once life did prove fair
For it gave me second chance afterall...!
To live with him, even if it was after death.....!