Has this thought ever crossed your mind
How things would have been had you been mine?
All the entangled feelings that bind
Suffocate and slowly die
Would have disappeared just by
That look, when your eyes met mine.
When you asked what I wanted from life
Why could I not say "For you to be mine"?
You call me the bravest, yet I was not brave enough.
How I wish there had been no ties,
No worldly attachments, no duties implied,
I wish I had broken the shackles
That kept me away from your shrine.
No wars would keep our love apart;
That was all I wanted for us.
But I was not brave enough.
I know you would not feel the same.
"Dreams are like the past", you once said,
"Always perfect, always happy, how easily
We unsee the unjust, unpleasant, unruly."
Perhaps your divine intervention was true
For all I remember from the past
Is the day I met you.
Not a war won, nor a throne, nor praises
But your eyes are talking to me in verses unsaid.
Tell me, had I been brave,
Would you have chosen me back
Accepted me with all your grace?
Would you have let your feelings rule
Or rebuked my naivety;
Be angry at my audacity?
To feel the unspeakable,
Choose you, My Princess.
But I wasn't brave enough.
So when I ride at dawn today,
Knowing in my heart,
I will never see you again,
Do I see your eyes teary?
Do you long to hug me as I do thee?
Curse this world and its rules.
As I pick up my sword for you, un-mourned
Bleed to death, whispering your name
Upon whom I submit my soul, beyond this game.
© Suranya
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