Rhyme and Reflection

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Strangers

Monday, October 17, 2011 | 1 minute read

Me and you in a relation
Bound by children, tradition, without any reason
Day after day that we spend together
Yet we remain compete strangers

Our daily squabbles, our mundane arguments
Our life together remains an unsolvable puzzle
Every moment that we walk together
The distance keeps growing, we remaining strangers

All I craved for was your delightful company
But it abandoned me like leaves of the fall season
Happiness is just a word that I read in books
Every waking moment of mine remains a pain to reason

In the times of sunlight, I see dense fog all around
Wrapping the invisibility cloak on our relation
The very simple desire to be together happy
Seems almost impossible in this artificial nation

The walk with you, hand in hand
The time spent laughing with you
Brief it remains, faded far away into the unseen horizon
As we walk side by side, painfully as strangers

Today as I sit facing you
Sipping a cup of tea and looking in your eyes
You quickly float away from my outstretched arms
Remaining in my life as nothing but a complete stranger*


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