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demoninlove
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since 2000-02-11

Posts 211
Dehradun

0 posted 2000-07-09 09:50 AM

IF EVER, OVER MY GRAVE, YOU GRIEVE

A moment ago your eyes personified life's joys, great and small
Your face smiled at the world.
Your face still smiles, but like the smile painted on a doll
As absently, you brush aside a curl,

Of your carelessly ribboned locks, of wavy lustrous hair
Falling in a cascade around your face
And I see that the fire of love in your eyes, is no longer there
Vanished without a trace.

I know that, for some time you will continue to profess love
While you gently retreat,
From my life, knowing that, I have already suffered enough
While worshipping your feet.

I wonder if you will ever think about me in later years,
When another, you gently leave;
I wonder if your lovely eyes will well with reluctant tears,
If ever, over my grave, you grieve.

Deepak Menon

Deborah1
Senior Member

since 2000-06-22

Posts 653
New Hampshire

1 posted 2000-07-09 01:34 PM

It makes me think about even the things I may feel at the time of someones passing. Very well done, I think your expressions were so true for many!!

Jamie
Member Elite

since 2000-06-26

Posts 3168
Blue Heaven

2 posted 2000-07-09 02:02 PM

Sadly wondering, softly written.

Jamie

Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito. - Virgil.
"Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely".

catalinamoon

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-06-03

Posts 9543
The Shores of Alone

3 posted 2000-07-09 07:41 PM

Deepak, I loved this, so beautiful. I believe I have lived this poem from both sides. It's a sad situation, oft repeated in life. By the way, I love all your work, its melodius and rich and always moves me.

Hardrock
Senior Member

since 2000-02-14

Posts 948
New Hampshire, USA

4 posted 2000-07-09 08:52 PM

Deepak...how's the book deal coming? This poem is so moving..forcing me to think, to recall, to feel. Well done my friend. Hardrock

demoninlove
Member

since 2000-02-11

Posts 211
Dehradun

5 posted 2000-07-09 10:17 PM

Thank you all again - hard facts of life - but even in them lie songs that can be sung albeit with tinges of sadness and nostalgia... and these are the songs of all our lives..
The book is printed and awaits a settlement between the publishers and the distributers - may take some time.
Love
Deepak

StarrGazer
Senior Member

since 2000-03-05

Posts 679
Texas

6 posted 2000-07-09 11:20 PM

very nicely expressed and so often true great work !!!

lotharingia
Senior Member

since 2000-06-04

Posts 897
saarbruecken, Germany

7 posted 2000-07-10 11:15 AM

What a sad piece. You express so well the emotions of someone feeling their relationship fade. You are a very gifted poet indeed.

Lotharingia
"For God's sake, he's a poet. Poets are meant to feel miserable. Otherwise, what the hell are they here for? What are they going to write about?"
Tom Holland

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