The Princess And The Peasant Poem by Vivek Haldar

I saw the boy again
beside me on that very day
I wanted to talk to him
But i couldn't
It seemed he was unmoved
by the pain inside him
I wanted to tell him
that he is not the only one
suffering,
but i kept my feelings inside me
I wanted to tell him
that the ball keeps on rolling
but he was far gone
far gone from understanding
he didn't speak
he was silent
he wanted to walk alone
and when i came upto him
he was gone
like he wanted to go away
in the darkness of the night
he could have been gone but
in my mind's eye i kept following him
pages after pages i tried to find him
but i couldn't locate him
i never saw him again
but i was left in my own pursuit
i wanted to go after him
and tell him that how everything changes
but i never had the courage to tell him that
i wanted to sink back into my own life
with my lifeless dreams
but, thoughts kept worrying me
i couldn't notice anyone
and when i woke up
no one was there
i was just the only one
sitting in that corner
i wanted to retract back
but i couldn't
my thoughts were spurned everywhere
like my pages
my hands moved but my heart stopped
in the night i quietly sat
and looked at the dark sky
i saw the princess coming towards me
but there was no peasant
she sat and looked at me
she wanted to ask me
about her only love
and i didn't have the answer
she kept on looking into my eyes
trying to see her peasant through my eyes
but she failed
her cheeks were wet by her own guilt
but there was no one there for solace
i wanted to tell her about his direction
but i didn't
i wanted to punish her for
what she had done to him
but i lost my power that day
my eyes stood still
but my brain was not
i wanted to tell her
that she deserved a prize for breaking
his heart
but i moved away
i moved away from the reality of things
and when i came back
I saw her as lifeless as i was
and she kept on looking at those pages
i wanted to stop her from reading them
but i moved aside
i moved aside as i wanted to go away
and tell everyone that broken hearts
don't find solace into the cosy cushions
and as i walked around
no thought was ringing inside
i wanted to be left alone
in this world
i wanted to snatch my pages from her hands
but i was as lifeless as she was
some people called and i was struck aback
and i saw her floating lifeless into
that dark deep blue ocean