That one little step

When I was all you had, your only friend, your true soul mate, your faithful lover…

My darling, was that only because there was none else to fill your every empty hour?

For nothing more than a single bewitching glimpse of that enchanting smile…

Held you close and walked you home in the pouring rain, colder and wetter with each mile…

 

Enticed by that exquisite face and tempting teasing curves that body into unbreakable invisible chains,

The carcass of a wrecked life, a silent testament to the innumerable follies is all that remains…

 

Not allowing a single drop from your eyes trickle down your cheek

Your solace and succor in your hazy storm grey and bleak…

 

As world around me crumbled, like a stranger unknown, you just stood and stared…

A dark putrid indistinguishable mass of repulsive soul those lifeless eyes bared…

 

Had I fallen too low for you to bestow upon me that mesmerizing smile, my lady?

Or was it just that you had become too busy to spare even a second to say ‘hi’ to me?

 

Does it require such a colossal effort to reply, to the man who breathed life into your drab existence?

Was it easy to walk away from the fountainhead of the color into the lack-luster sea of subsistence?

 

I cannot help but wonder why you couldn’t walk that one little step for me…

Tell me my love, why? , When the miles I have walked for you are before you to see…

 

Reviews

[Craig Froman]

What a moving, beautifully bittersweet song of life and love... There is that sense of being so close, yet the fabric of the world unraveling around you... What an aching longing unfulfilled...

[Eclipsing Moon]

@ Siddhartha...well spoken.

[Robbie]

The pain from ones apathy towards the lover, is felt in this piece... Your depiction of a love that will not take that extra step to show affection, is the pinnacle of heartbreak... This is an intriguing write!

[Siddhartha]

It straddles that fine line between poetry and prose and does it nicely. There is so much poignancy in this piece.

[Kim]

I like it thought it was kind of thought provoking and deep. Nicely done!