PHANTOMS OF MEMORY

 

River of emotions burst it's banks,

Tears rained in torrents to fill tanks,

Screaming of unexpressed feelings,

A mire of hollowness made head reeling.

Unwritten poems sodden with gloom,

Life stretched away in to the edge of doom,

Phantoms of memory fill heart's dark room,

To dust them away, there is no broom.

Feelings took me blindfolded to a place,

Where I choked from nostalgic embrace,

Shell that guarded emotions suffered crack,

Tears started gushing out all the way back.

©K. Radhakrishnan