Hames

Today, he waits
at the station, searching through
the window panes. And soon
he’ll run along, chasing
shadows to his past.
 
The train became a home
to a lover. A wanderer of days-
exiled to traveling distances.
An evacuee amidst
the maze of constant strangers.
 
A thought, he is keeping-
of a woman he lost.
That last glimpse returning,
as she boarded a train-
happily blew him a kiss.
 
But [...]

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You chose not
to keep memories.
Not to keep promises.
 
But I chose-
to keep,
each single imagery,
each single scene
into a film.
 
Tell me  a word.
And whisper niceties.
 
I consummate,
each single  line,
each single thought.
You must know.
 
I had kept you.
 
Here
some faded photographs-
of us.
 
In the quiet corner
of my mind.
 
We dream.

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At young age, I was severely smacked down by our pet dog.  When my father learned about it, he brought down his gun and pulled the trigger. The dog instantly died. But I was hospitalized, sending my parents into panic if I had contracted the dreaded rabies.  But thank God, there is no indication of [...]

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