Strings Poem by Nalini Jyotsana Chaturvedi

To stop before it slips
I clutched my fists
Way too hard

But it squeezed itself out
Your love for me
No reasons found
To never return
to these parts

Empty handed
Now I am stranded
In lonely alleys
Unknown paths

But I will wait
For the next
Summer winds
Riding them home
Cutting up all my strings

The strings of love
And commitment
With which we
We're bound for life

But you said
they tied you down
Stopped you from
Taking a flight

While I was enslaved
Traces of tears
On my face
As I craved
For endless skies