What Love Left Behind

I try to quiet my mind.

But it never listens.

my thoughts refuse to leave me alone

somehow they always find their way back to her.

When I drift into our memories,

some are beautiful, some are painful.

For a moment,

I can almost feel her beside me

even after telling myself

a thousand times to let her go.

But she was never that easy to forget.

I never imagined

someone could become

such a part of me

that letting go

would feel like losing a part of myself.

I will carry pieces

of our story with me forever.

Maybe someday our roads will cross again.

Maybe they won't...

Fate never asks permission

before changing the course

of life and what it offers.

So, I let myself remember...

her smile, her warmth,

the moments that made

the rest of the world disappear.

I stopped trying to erase

what once made me happy.

This is what love leaves behind

when two people can’t quite find their way

back to each other.

By

Sanji-Paul Arvind