Crossroads

By Bharat Razdan

One day, I'll look across the road

You'll be standing there with that smile on your face

You won't know I'm there

And neither will I call out your name

I'll see you and just smile as I walk away

Trying not to catch your eye

Because I know you'll jump right in front of me,

Or at least I think you would like you used to

It’s impossible for me to not remember everything whenever I see your face

Every fuckin little detail, as much as I don’t want to

Because as great as we once were together

We were, but now you are, and me, I'm not

Seeing u made me remember the pain i had felt

The one I still remember as clear as the blue sky.

The one if I let out, I'd be empty inside

Because it’s not you, but it’s the last part of you i have

I look at you, and feel how close you are to my arms, in my reach, just a flicker away

But can’t bring myself to cross that road again

Because the person you remember died with you not being there with him

The person across from you now is just a remnant that I have put together from our broken pieces

The pieces which once made him whole have made him fall into an abyss

And the longer he looks at you, the farther he'll go in

But would it stop him from looking at the one thing he wanted to never lose

I went in the day I lost that smile

Now, even if I fall to the bottom of the abyss

I'll be happy that the pieces which were gone

Are just lost, not deleted from existence

Because, a falling man can only do one thing,

HOPE.

By Bharat Razdan