Don’t come closer…
Don’t come closer
Now that you have gone farther
Any step nearer
Makes me in fear quiver
Once… I let you touch my heart
Draw me out of my past
You rowed me ashore
Showed me heaven’s door
In your love transformed
A new ‘I’ had formed
Pure and untainted
I was joy unalloyed
No longer alone
The world I seemed to own
Then… for reasons unknown
I was not any more your own
You had drawn a line
Ever so fine
To keep me at bay
Day after day
I knew not the reason
For the change in season
Why you built the wall
Or why I had to fall
Many things at stake
What was my mistake
Where did I go wrong
Do we still belong??
Yet… I know you love me still
This love no one can kill
Yes, you love me as before
And that love is forever more….
-Shail Mohan (July 2008)
Reposted from shail-mohan blogs @ sulekha.com
beautiful…touching…
Initially what looked like nice cute kind of poem in reality has real depth when one ponders on the lines…depends on the reader, to what depths one is willing to go…
ps: recently saw your comments in my blog, made 3 months back… i wasnt writing much till recently so missed them…thanks !
Hello Shail, Great poem, good to see you here, but miss you at 360. Nice poem,
Ayyo Shailji, guess you are writing what I dont want to get into right now. Some people suddenly become a touch me not and leave me in complete confuzzlement. Thank you for putting words to my thoughts.
Thank you Ganga!
Monu, nice to see you here. Thanks for the appreciation.
Krishnan, wow its been a really long time. Thanks for the appreciation of the poem.
Rashmi, the same as you do!! Loved your latest one for ‘Tempestuous’!
“Yet… I know you love me still
This love no one can kill
Yes, you love me as before
And that love is forever more….”
The whole poem touched me and made me tell myself that no one can write my heart better than my mom. But just when i was reading the above quoted ones… something stopped my thoughts and said… “No this is not for me”
Loved this poem mumma! (((((hugs)))))
Thank you da Bubbly! I will hope that some day you will find those lines hold true for you.