I Can't Unlove You

By Garima Dixit

These tears cascade, an uninviting tide,

Until They prove how much my soul is in love with you,

Echoes of your laughter still dance on the air,

A bittersweet melody, the ghost of tomorrow.

When you said, 'It's over',

My heart fractured in silence.

I felt like I was being torn in fragments, 

And I couldn't find a way to cope.

I drift in the void, a ship lost at sea,

Each wave, a memory crashing over my frame,

In this endless abyss where love used to be,

I felt I was drowning, and it was you all around.

How do I unlove you, when you're woven in me?

In every heartbeat, in every sigh, a plea

Your smile, a ray of warmth, your laughter, a song.

Yet here I stand, shattered- where did we go wrong?

In the shadows where silence lingers,

A whisper of your name clings-

But time has no mercy, and fate plays its part,

Leaving fragments of love to reside in each chamber of my heart.

It was all my fault. I couldn't give you assurance,

It was my hesitation that unravelled our thread,

I can't accept that WE aren't US anymore 

And WE are 'you' and 'I'.

I can't unlove you; it's an unwritten verse,

Etched in the marrow of my weary bones,

So here I stand, in the garden of longing where memories grow,

With love still intact,

Cause I can't, I just can't unlove you.

By Garima Dixit