Until We Meet Again…

The Kiss — Gustav Klimt

Goodbyes are to give us a closure, but what if we parted without a good enough closure? What if our souls had not yet accepted that our parting is our final meeting, that this will be the last time we will ever see each other.

The longing to see that person once more, to tell them that you cherish the times you had together, or if it is not cherishing, you want to let them know how you felt in their company.

I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
- Pi Patel, Life of Pi

Some goodbyes are hard, and some people don’t even deserve a send off, but it is inevitable that people will come into our lives, for better or for worse and ever single person who comes, alters our flow of life to some extent, sometimes its too great that their presence will be unforgettable, and sometimes its too short that even though we forget the person and their face the alteration in our life will be undisturbed.

But then there are those whom we want to meet again and again yet our circumstances go against us. This is a poem in honor of all those people I’d like to meet again…

The sun always sets to raise again,
yet your departure was to never return.

In the absurd circumstance of life’s beat,
it was hard to realize,
that it will be the last time our gazes meet.

That distant memory of your last smile,
the glint in your eyes that lit up the world,
and this heart of mine which took it all for granted,
realized too late that it was your presence
that my heart wanted.

‘Until we meet again’
my heart tries to reason with me,
yet deep inside I know.
This parting will be the last time
my tired old eyes gazed upon your soul’s beauty.

‘Until we meet again’
says the voice inside me.
Yet my heart had halted right then,
to wait for you, for your return,
this hopeless longing stinging like a bee.

And like an old man waiting for his death,
I waited for you too,
for I knew…

The moment my eyes were laid upon you,
my heartbeats will transcend to something anew…

~ C. Madan

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