By-Aditi Choudhury
Tears screeching loud in silence
Silence that surrounds as if stolen from graveyards
Your smile as if a mourning orchid
Your sky that has lost its moonlight in darkness
The rustle of sweet chirp now closed within windows
And just the rain that has bought in you again in her thoughts
The world calls it lonely, you call it escape from her loss
Fighting with the world, with yourself
And I say-
Loneliness is a thought moreover a regret
these thoughts which have risen from your wrong beliefs
Have just made you a caged bird in his own nest
Amidst the bars of memories and out of these memories
Sad ones make us regret the incomplete chapter
Ironically happy ones make us strongly believe the thought
What if we change our belief?
What if we start believing that happy moments are nothing just experiences
And experience never fades away…they stay with us forever
the sad memories?
They define the perfect justification why the story did not end your way
Now, look yourself are you still the caged bird
No! now you are unlocking the cage
Your thoughts have been changing
So where is your loneliness?
Honey! those happy memories are to cherish as your achievement, take its pride
Ok! If again next chapter is left incomplete…god gave you an empty book
You have time, go on with the next chapter…when you complete some chapters
You are going to understand those incomplete chapters have its perfect ending
And say -Why not giving my book another new chapter?
That day the free bird will take birth, chirping in its air
You will listen the silent poetries of graveyards
You will see rain washing mourning orchids to roses of love
Gleaming moonlight coming out of cloud
the free bird now is a star
And did not you see stars
They even fall down with a sparkle
But you are a shooting star
You would end with those sweet wishes made on your fall...
So what are you waiting for?
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This poem has been published in the book 'The Last Flower Of Spring'. Buy the paperback copy on Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/y9sydnxn