Years have have flown by but as if in a dream

It seems like yesterday you left for the war front

With a promise to return to me, sealed with a kiss

And then that day dawned the sun seemed a ball of lava

Or the sky appeared smeared with scarlet blood

The wind in the morn had restless whispers that I ignored

And then the tidings came, you were dead the words reverberated

But your body was no where to be found, and against hope

And all reasonable thinking I hoped you live somewhere

Every dawn that blossomed in refulgent hues enlightened

The hope of your return in my pining heart

And with every footstep that I heard my eyes glued to the threshold

I never left my home lest you should come and find me gone

With every dusk a hope died in my eyes that gazed still at horizons

Those dimmed, riddled with lengthening shadows with the dying day

The night passed lilke a restless interlude with dreams of your return

Mocking me in the vestiges of sleep that I could muster

My eyes were tired, but hope still iridescent in my gaze

Life was at a standstill without you despite passage of days

I grew old and grey with wrinkles but never lived

Not beyond the day that I heard of your death

I know that you will return and if not

Then life will one day end unnoticed while I embrace you

In the vaccum of cosmos filling it with unconditional love…