Lost Self In Me Poem by Nalini Jyotsana Chaturvedi

The Self in Me
Is surely gone
Wonder where
Did it
Slip along

Might have
Fizzled
With the
Oceans surf

Or could
Have seeped deep
Into the sand
And Dirt

Must have
Drifted away
With strong
Westerly winds

Don't know
How to
Find old Me
For have no
Strong wings

That essence
That permeated
My very life
And being

Is Long gone
And now Forgotten
Escaped
From worldly
Scene

Hence

What is left
Is just
The peel
The shell
The cover

All hollowed
Out
Gallows
No life giving
Stream

A waterless
River
Is Like a
black hole

A rainbow
Devoid of colours
Lone cactus
In deserts bowl
Nalini