COME TO STAY

COME TO STAY


Welcome my memories you
Have, with me, come to stay.
Those bitter-sweet images
Will, from me, never sway.

Can I forget the image
When I shyly proposed?
But with a different look,
This vain thought was disposed.

And the image of my first
Love that I had chosen?
Alas, those sweet promises!
All of them were broken.

The image, the longest one,
Then entered in my life:
That of constant love and hate
Between me and my wife.

The final image, strongest,
Sequestered in my mind,
Is tinged with a shadow of
Rather, a gloomy kind.

This is the image that I
Have alive till this day,
When while leaving this world she,
With peace, in my arms lay.

I thank you my memories,
Come to stay forever.
Till the end I’ll cherish you,
And forsake you never.


• Written in abcb, 7-6-7-6 format

• Written for the "Inspirations" contest, "Invalid Item" , 4th Round, May 2008, hosted by destinydances .



M C Gupta
3 May 2008