Lingering Twilight

Words arrive uninvited. Images stay longer than they should. Living somewhere between the light and what comes after it. Lingering Twilight — because some moments refuse to become night.

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That was home...

The inimitable chaos

The bludgeoning despair

The impenetrable gloom

The insoluble conundrum

The incessant anguish

And that was home...

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Hi are you single or married

Married

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood

Meandering into the horizon

The autumn splendor beckons

And I breathe in the earthy scent

The crisp cool breeze

Tastes of the fall colors.

I look back at my footsteps

Etched in the dust and dirt

At times I have stopped and stared

At times I have broken into a run

And here i stand now

At the brink of another bend

If I make a choice

What destiny should I opt for?

The one that sets me free

Or the one that takes me somewhere?

Should I trust my mind

Or rather follow my heart?

I marvel at life

That offers a road at every turn

The chosen path charts your voyage

Nothing else matters much

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Hey

Hi

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Some roads are destinations unto themselves..

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And just beyond the edge of reason

Lay the precipice of emotion .

You try to cling on,

With a resolve that weakens

Precariously, second by second..

But the depths

Entice you with passion .

Pray tell..

What would it be

That makes you more human?

Holding fast to reason

Or taking the plunge with abandon ..

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The storm outside.. The calm within..

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Hey can we talk?

Yea.. about?

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Asunder,

The senile dreams

Start to crumble near the edges.

Like the letters

Scribbled along the sides

Of the yellowing pages

Of an old book, lost and found,

They are reminiscent of something

That mattered a bit too much

To be consigned to oblivion.

Bit by bit

Everything fades away

The hurt, the joys, the anger...

Time shades things in grey

The dull, lifeless grey.

You pick up the pieces

And walk on

But never cease to wonder

If you can be whole again

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Between tide and time…

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It rains the way only monsoon can rain. With abandon, without regrets, without apologies.. The sound of the raindrops falling on the roof, the leaves, the soil.. The distant rumble of thunder..The smell of the wet earth.. The cool damp air drifting inside..

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Weaving gold…

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Draped in snow..

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I tag behind your memories

Beckoning me to the abyss

Where,

Stowed away

Lay the priceless cache of memories, sublime..

It still beats for you, dear

My heart, that you have stolen and forsaken

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The constellations on earth..

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When the sun dripped gold..