Look Back Poem by Kranthi Pothineni

Look back is what I said.
Look back is what I asked.
Look back is what I want.
Look back is what I wished.

But you moved by growing distance.
My heart started to run with growing distance.
But you moved further ahead
And my eyes had lost your sight

Look back I yelled like a hell with the wind
Hoped this moving wind will take my message
Take it to you and make you to look back
Look back is what I hoped for

My hope went with that moving wind
My hope moved like a monsoon cloud
My hope of light is blown off by wind
And left me to the vultures of the desert

My heart started to run fast almost to win gold in Olympics
I told it to slow down and walk with my head
It slowed and walked hand in hand with my head
My running heart became singing heart with its company

My singing heart made a new wish of looking ahead
Ahead into the future where only music plays
And I will dance in that music and sail this desert
Sail ahead into a green land with its songs forever.