In Memoriam

In Memoriam

In the dim light of the lonely lamp

Shining amongst the millions lights

Lighting up the night

The lamp stood still, and dimming

Only one in that home

One soul had left

“Went to heaven” some say

But the void he left

Will be felt everyday

And on the night

When world was merry

And Skies brightened up

That solitary lamp

With its dimming rays

Recounted the days went by

‘Life Hangs by thread’ they say

But was this thread so weak

Snatched at a single pull

Scattering other threads away

As the lamp dims

So did his life

All of sudden it pulled

Where it went one cannot say

Dream or reality

Illusion or delusion

Or just some hallucination

As the time went by

The pain of loneliness was felt

And in memoriam in write

In memories of time we spent

In memories of your life

In memory of my genesis

In my untold love for you

Now I feel the solitude

Pulls and pushes of life

Filling your shoes I feel

How was it like

But the lamp finds it destiny

In an hour or two

This too shall pass, as saying goes

Memories can be bitter too.

© Tarun Mitra