SOLITUDE

POEM

Leave me alone, I love loneliness.

I don’t have a companion

either a pretty lady nor a vibrant youth.

Keeping the doors shut

switching on the lights and fan

and keeping the windows opened

a hectic schedule awaits me

by way of reading and writing.

Occasionally, yes occasionally

in the night

I walk to the windows and

enjoy cool winds blowing

thru the windows

and the moonlight and starry 

nights host me

a visual feast  as long as  I like.

When I feel like drowsing

I walk toward my bed.

Under the rapid revolution of fan

I lie and fall asleep.

Memories rush out

keeping no pattern

which move back and forth

make me pleasant and sad

everything depend.

Now that after treading

a long path full of thorns and craters

I am here.

In the beginning I did

have friends galore

and with the passage of time

they left me - one by one

leaving me in the lurch.

The boredom and agony of existence

pestered me for a prolonged

period and I have learnt

to fall in love with it with the days passing by.

Now I have come

to the realization that solitude

is my intimate

friend in the coming days……