Throwback 2016 Poem by Vinaya Joseph

Past is past,
I ‘shall' move ahead,
Not ‘may'
But I shall,
I told my heart to steel myself,
Away from promiscuity,
I felt strange,
I was in a crowd,
Yet I was alone,
What a paradox!

The keys of my happiness,
Is within me,
You can't take it away from me...

The heaviness in my chest,
The tears in my eyes,
Both were testimony to,
What I had been through in 2016,
With you,

Felt like an owl,
Denied of light,
Sometimes life gives you a dozen caps,
Then makes you shave off your head...

It gives you lemons and lemonades,
Sometimes sweet taste lingers,
While at other times bitterness...

Whether you deserved my friendship,
I don't know,
But you did leave a deep void,
That is difficult to fill

For me you are dead,
The man whom I loved was not you,
He died with your words and action,
You are just an apparition,
That reminds me of him,
You are surely not the one whom I loved,
He was way above,
He was my love,
And could not do what you did,
Certainly he won't,
If he was alive…