"Yesterday"

 

You and me and such a pleasant yesterday

Darling, don't you know I had a lot to say

But as you smiled, all my words fell apart

Inside my head I felt the beating of your heart.

Seagulls chirping over my head since when

Clouds kissed the mountain in a shallow breath

Do you still cry in this ghosted town?

Do you still dream of the memories torn to shreds?

The music from the barracks reminds me

It's time to burn another candle in the church

No matter how badly it rips you apart,

What destroys you is what you cling to your heart.

You are not anymore in my mundane yesterdays

Lot left unspoken, obliterated beneath the waves

Reasons are irrelevant in the cycle of time

Voices screaming aloud from under the graves.

By Saptak Dutta