Sans You, My Love
Lost on this lonely path I look ahead to see nothingness Immured am I by the unceasing wrath Of bygone times and their mores. Once you came into my life Painting it with hues of happiness But now how am I to survive? Sans you my love, all I am is hapless. As violence that I’ve always abhorred Spurned all my dreams in one terrifying moment What could I have gifted you but all the tears I shed? For you lay cold beneath a blanket of blood marking an end. Wasn’t I always a mere spectator of the games life played? And so before my eyes changed everything Once a vibrantly coloured canvas, it is now drained All that I have are faded colours and a ponderous ring. What does the unending expanse of white symbolise? Wanness, worry or woe? Or perhaps it is the colour of hope and poise. For it is white with no tinge of blue. With five metres of pure white draped A forlorn and dispassionate lady I see in the mirror. With no traces of saffron on...