LET ME REST IN PEACE

Sometimes when memories poke through the verdigris of mind

you remember me guiltily and try to make amends 
by leaving some flowers to rot on my grave.

Just like you left me here long ago, to rot 
forever in a casket lined with satin white.

Do you know that on cold nights I shiver 
and on sultry ones sweat in this coffin 
in which you have entombed my soul 
along with my dead body?

Why did you have to seal it so tight with memories
that refuse to release me from this world?

I do not blame you for having moved on with your life, 
I understand you have to, there’s no other go!

But now that you have found someone else, 
just leave me alone here in this graveyard 
amongst the weeds of time.

I still love and miss you with all of my heart,
but do not come back ever to refresh my pain.

At least here, in this black hole, let me rest in
peace beneath the surface of time.
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23/04/08                                     R Jayachandran