Yesteryear

BY NAVNEETA BHITRIA

I harmonized myself so well in the symphony of your wicked plays,
I could no longer perceive the bars of betrays.

Veiling the truth in shadow's embrace
Oh darling, you were such a disgrace!

Beneath the cloak of "haunted by the echoes of time unborn"
My love, your lust had seasons ago forlorn.

Cast adrift in this sepulcher of misery, I lay dead with a quivering core
Weathering every wound of your claymore.

And in the solemn lane of graveyards, buried our dawn-kissed dreams..
are now just nightmares and clandestine screams.

Amidst labyrinth of unfed emotions..
even for a bare whisper of existence, tell me it wasn't just any form of hallucination.

The catastrophic nocturnal terrors,
The spine freezing shivers..
In this tapestry of life, now stand the weavers.

Do they mean nothing to you?
The treasured memories, even a few?