Monday, February 19 2001
Shattered Dreams ..... Ad Infinitum
Smitha VSmitha V has been writing ever since she could hold a pen. She says, "My scribblings were found everywhere and I would (and still do) write anywhere and everywhere as fancy takes me, my favorite atmosphere for writing being a boring lecture in college. Next to poetry, my passion is computers and I am currently doing Masters in Computers Application. I am fun loving, vivacious and an incurable dreamer." Her poems have been published in Women's Era magazine of India and other forums. click here to read her other poems.
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Starry eyed I sit gazing at nothing
Friends adorning my hands with henna
A shining bindi adorning my forehead
And a blush rendering beauty to my cheeks
Lost in my own world,
I give myself upto.
Welcoming my future and beloved with open arms
Shatterer of dreams walks in
Holding a missive in his hand
Aware yet unaware of the holocast
He wreaks in my life
The paper holds but a line
"Comrade killed in action"
Numbed I sink against the wall
Tears washing away the half done henna
And my dreams along with it
Half done henna
A half lived life
All done away in a second
Here my tears flow copiously
and there your blood flows incessantly
Seconds ago I was among the numerous
Brides embracing a future
Full of anticipated bliss
Now I join another clan
Of war widows
Embracing a future??
Full of treasured memories
And shared dreams........
Bearing the cross
Of unfulfilled love
And an unfulfilled life
Credits:
Henna picture provided by: http://www.angelfire.com/co/dipakpatel/Henna.html
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