Confidences

The days when
You would treasure

A warm moment
When you glow from within
Or a scary one
Which made you tremble

So that at the end of the day
You share it With the one
Who understands and responds
The way you need to hear

Or write long, meandering letters
Because you would not survive
Without sharing What touches you

Those days are over
Those People are gone

And Now like a battered earth
After hours of thundering rain
You let it pass
Veer and shringaar
Haasya and karuna
Vibhatsaand adbhoot
And With nowhere to keep them
Nothing to hold them
You let everything pass
Without registering
On your mind and heart

It comes and goes
Without making you pause
Without changing you
In the least

You cannot even manage
The expected "oh!"

You only watch from afar
Disenchanted disengaged

But you know
That you are only alive
As long as you feel...