By Pramod Rastogi
SILENT COMPANIONS
The distance between us two has grown.
The day starts and ends with our disapprovals.
How long can we share a life lived in strife
Where clouds of admonitions rain forever?
Nostalgia I cannot relinquish resides in me.
She lives in me and I cannot leave her.
The sounds of melancholy live in our eyes
And they sing in quiet their songs of despair.
Love has gone on a journey oceans away. Roads
Are quiet and silence reigns as our talks flounder.
Holding hands and embraces are lost.
Storms build up and are lost. That is our destiny.
The monsoon settles down now to stay longer
And spring has shrunk to be as good as absent.
Yet, in every ray of sun, I want to relive the spring.
Not many more blossoms are left for me to live
Pramod Rastogi is an Emeritus Professor at the EPFL, Switzerland. He is a poet, academician, researcher, author of nine scientific books, and a former Editor-in-chief (1999-2019) of the international scientific journal “Optics and Lasers in Engineering”. He has published over hundred poems in international literary journals.
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