FROZEN HEART

FROZEN HEART


I can’t love. Why? Don’t ask me.
This is just my destiny.

I too was a bubbling girl,
Fragrance in my every curl.

I too had a sweet boyfriend.
With him life I planned to spend.

But he spent a night with me
And gave me ignominy.

That black night I can’t forget,
Which, till this day, I regret.

I had trusted his love and
He turned into a fiend.

He simply tore me apart,
Then did, from my life, depart.

My heart froze that summer night,
Full of fright and full of blight.

I cannot, to you, explain:
Frozen heart can’t thaw again.


* Written in 7-7 format. Initially written as entry no. 357086 in the book "Invalid Item" , WOMEN’S POEMS. Posted as the present item on 30 November 2008.


M C Gupta
1 July 2005