A year after you left,
Your tooth brush is still in its place
Your specs in their case
Your wrist watch in the bedside drawer..still ticking
And yet, everything else came to a pernicious halt
Was it my fault,
Or just my fate
Would it have been different
Had I been more wise
Have you actually gone
Or is it just my eyes
For I feel you all around me
Loving, caring, shielding..
I couldn’t have walked a single step
Without you yourself guiding
Your heartbeats I hold close to me
in that last fateful ECG
Your scent still fills my nostrils
Your clothes still smell of you
You’re there in your handwriting
that’s fresh and perfect blue
Your hairbrush has those strands intact,
As if you used it this morning too
And yet they say, you’re gone for good
Gone too soon, for heaven-hood
I hear all through of the impact
You left on each soul that you touched
With your smile and kindest simplicity
Your purity and candid generosity
I was the luckiest, I always knew
But hope you somewhere know that too
I love you the most and will always do
And miss you more than words could ever construe
~ Ritu