Long Back Poem by Praveen Kumar in Celestial Glow

It's so long back
In the annals of my life,
Behind a million layers,
Yet resplendent
As if from yesterday;
Mortal chill was ahead about to seize,
Already deadly tsunami began its rolls,
But I was unaware
Though black clouds were forming within,
And languid I was,
Bleak dusk was blinding me;
I sat under an ancient tree
And immersed in frozen time
In reinforced silence for long;
When I broke out
A cool breeze swept over me
As if you were whispering something;
I believe not in supernatural,
Ignored little whispers
And walked back like a phantom.

It was eighth day,
And rolled to the fourteenth day,
Forty seven years back this day,
Overturning tide of life
That you were no more!
Never since then I'm I,
Never since then ceased grief
And eternal wait in hope
That we meet again some day.

Very long is forty seven years,
Waves of heads rose and rolled,
But the frozen grief within,
As tender as is ever;
I rose and fell in tides,
But you remain intact as ever,
No time could smudge the stamp
You engraved on my soul;
I probed nook and corner
Of every phase of time,
I turned every page
Of every tide of life
To trace footprints of you;
I guess you are back
Already on your mission,
Almost I'm certain,
Yet I'm in doubts
In this uncertain world;
So you creep as ever
Within and without forever.