Long Way Home Poem by Karan Tripathi

Take me away
From righteous words, from truth
Take me away
From the memories drenched in gloom.

Beyond the reach of sanity
To the world which suffice us
Let’s share a road, oh dear
And leave the rest on words.

Finding conclusions amidst confusions,
Watching the sun go down,
Smiling on silliness, glances unnoticed
Defying the life’s inevitabilities

Underneath the glooming lights
Strutting like bandits
Speaking lengths, yet holding back
Vows which means the world.

Today, let’s forget,
The road always taken
And move ahead, with damnable hearts
To memories long forgotten


Let’s walk to rise above
From that shyness which shackles us
From doubts dwelling between us
To the moment where souls connect.

Amidst the palpable silence
Let’s bring our walls down
And find the truest truths
In the sea of each other’s eyes.

For that missing part of me
For the loudness that quietens the truth
For my lost battle, my fallen Rome
For everything we wished we were
In this dark, just you and me
Taking a long way home

Let’s take a long way home
To abstract the façade of love
To know me, to know you
And forget the world within.