Chasing Us

It was never real;

But I felt the echoes-

Echoes of the emotion

That laid deep down in my notion,

The feeling that caught light

And I held you very tight,

But as the night made an approach

We blend in it- like a ghost,

We build a world: like a web of lies

A story of ours where even fiction dies,

We kept laying beneath the painted sky

Giggling for hours as time passed by,

We spoke while silence lingered in between

Where love feigned like one behind the screen,

We chased a dream- But “We” never were

It all vanished like a dream leaving behind memories: blur,

The echoes were now lost in a trust - broken

Just like a love whose verse was never heard or spoken,

My heart still hums the name

Even when nothing remains the same,

I am still there running in streets narrow

Chasing the echoes; chasing us within the dark shadows!!!

 

-Smarika Pandey

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