Title: Echoes Of Time - Long Time No See Poem by ashok jadhav

(A solitary figure stands under a fading streetlight, rain lightly falling. They speak aloud, as if addressing someone unseen, or maybe the memory itself.)
Monologue:
"Long time… no see. How strange it sounds when the tongue utters it, carrying the weight of years, of absence, of silence. Long… time… no see. Not just words, no—they are tiny fragments of a broken bridge, fragments I've been trying to piece together all these years.
Do you remember? Do you even remember? There were days when your laughter was the morning sun, and your absence was a night without stars. And yet, here I am, speaking to shadows, speaking to echoes, hoping… hoping that somewhere, somehow, these words reach you.
Long time no see… It's not just a greeting—it's an apology, a confession, a reckoning with the years we let slip through our fingers. It is the ache of missed moments, the sorrow of unsaid words, the joy of memory that refuses to fade. How cruel, time… how cruel, to stretch the distance between us into an eternity.
And yet… I am here. Still speaking, still hoping. For in this simple phrase, in this modest reunion of sound and sentiment, lies the power to mend the broken strands, to stitch together what the world tried to scatter. Long time… no see. Let it be not just words, but a beginning. A beginning of laughter once again, of shared silences, of stories exchanged under the same sky.
So I say it again… long time no see. And I dare to believe that it will not be long again. That tomorrow, the years will fold themselves like old letters, and we will stand, eyes meeting, hearts remembering, and the weight of time will dissolve in a single, fleeting smile."