The Dream That Failed

By Shubhodeep Pal
Dehradun, India

It was the day you said I'd see you smile.

I said you'd be mine for aeons after -

You almost smiled.

But you wanted to warp my whims

So you smiled with your eyes.

I waited beneath the silent sky

And saw countless seconds whir wearily by

And the sun turned black then scarlet and wild -

I must have been destiny's ill-fated child. 

The days grew thin and

Old; creepers haunted my nightless 

Eyes. You remained in my dreams… 

...And now I wait with bated zeal

For the apologies that my jaded humour

Will shred and hone. 

My moonlit burns glimmer

With passionless fragments of memory:

I know this story now.

This time my scars will be forged -

I stopped dreaming of you two dreamless winters ago.

Remember?

It was the day you waltzed my dreams away.