Farewell 2014 Poem by Vinaya Joseph

FAREWELL 2014

There was no send-off,
There was no leaving party,
No farewell…

My relation with you,
Was just like 2014,
It just passed away
Into obscurity of time,
And hopefully memories will fade away,
Because they were not even worth holding

And strangely I never felt sad,
Or surprised,
Because I always knew
Deep within me
From the time,
I called you a jerk,
To the countless hours,
You spent on messaging me and vice-versa,
Or the hours that I wasted
On compiling the book for you,
That you were definitely not the one,
Destined for me…

I knew you were bogus,
I could smell artificiality,
In everything that you wrote,
From the hollow,
Darlings, Honeys and Hmmmmmmsss,
I empathized with the hurt,
That you wrote about,
I was naïve in not deciphering,
The ‘phony' feelings,
Counterfeit claims of your heart,
That's where I lost out,
I ignored the fact that
There is an inherent ‘lie' in your name
And against that little voice of my conscience,
I kept telling myself that maybe you are clean from inside…

Everything became apparent,
Once you left,
Glad that it didn't work out between us,
I could see the light of the day,
And the darkness of the night,
With a precision that I never had before,
The obscurities of life became clear,
It is hard to describe the feelings in a few words,
But I feel good that I was able to dispel the dark clouds,
That surrounded my life
Because of the relation,
I had with you…

2015 marks another beginning for me,
New set of challenges,
We are all part of an eternal plan,
When and where will I find my pigeon hole?
Hope that I won't meet any more two-timers…

And this world is small,
We might bump into each other,
Who knows?
Some day,
No regrets,
Absolute no regrets

But, I am glad to say
Farewell to you…

And Farewell 2014!