Do I Still Know You?

Do I still know you, are you the same?

The one I loved, the one I’d name.

You were the truth I used to see,

The soul I thought belonged to me.

Why did you fade, why did you change?

Why does your heart now feel so strange?

That tiny home we built with grace,

Is now just air; no warm embrace.

The words we shared, once soft and kind,

Now echo silence left behind.

No tether left, no thread to bind,

Just broken thoughts inside my mind.

Was it a fault I couldn’t see?

Did I fall short, or was it just me?

I tried to hold what slipped away,

But you were gone by break of day.

I’m tired now, of playing strong,

Of writing rights in all that's wrong.

This life feels torn, this soul confused,

Emotions lost, worn out, misused.

My heart still beats, but not with light,

It walks with death through every night.

These breaths I take, they beg to cease,

Not pain, not joy, just longing peace.

So tell me now, if you still care,

Was I just dreaming you were there?

I speak to ghosts, I sing to blue,

To ask, do I still know you?

©®Madhumita