To Let Go
A Poem
Amid the bustling station,
I looked at her for one last time.
Her wistful countenance, her crimson eyes and her damp cheeks,
Made it hard for me to breathe.
I tugged my face closer to the rusty window rails,
in a desperate attempt,
to fight the suffocation of my guilt.
As I took a deep breath,
A million memories of hers,
Scattered in my head,
back and forth like dragonflies in the wind;
I remembered how we lay together,
on the grass, talking about
our dreams and our songs,
it was the best of times;
Then I remembered, how she slipped,
the hangman’s noose around my neck,
and left me dangling on a mango grove,
Mortally wounded;
it was the worst of times.
As my head cleared,
and reason returned,
I vowed to never see her again.
After all, Shouldn’t you forget a bad past?
Suddenly the train jolted forward,
And I looked at her for one last time.
© Shreya Sinha 2022
Written by Shreya Sinha, Thank you for reading.
Shout out to LC, check out her amazing poem Bargain with a Death Sentence
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