Thinking Of You ... Jul 14, 2013

I think of you
The many yous
Faint images in the passages of my mind
The time when you meant the world to me
And I to you
But journeys converge and part
You have gone your own way
Still you remain in the fragments of memory
Filling inches of a coloured tapestry
Each thread speaks tome of where you and I crossed paths
When we shared dreams
The took different turned when the roads forked
Some choices took me high above the limits of self doubts
Others cast me into the depths of living hell
Enriched no less from experience
Heartened that possibilities remain to be found
Then in quiet moments
Faces, places, names, memories
I think of you.

Woman .... June 10, 2013

You see only the tough exterior
You see the smiles,
May hear the unladylike laugh
Maybe you just see a clown of a woman
Nothing pretty to the eyes
Nothing smart in the brain
Not even acceptable at any level
Just a woman
One to mock
One to find faults with
One to insult or be rude to
Only a lowly woman
Might you then be gallant enough
To stand in her womanly shoes
To tread the steps she takes
To do the things she does
To be as strong in resolve
To hold her tongue words that would cut you down to size
Could you lay in her bed of thorns
As her heart bleeds its burdened sorrows
Unspoken
Unheard
Nothing more nothing less
Can you be that woman
Just simply a woman.

.ani 10-June-13