The Beginning
You found me, I, the romantically apocalyptic girl
And you, the endlessly fascinating boy from Pearl
A piteous, torn patchwork doll as far as the rest could see
But electricity, it drew you near to me
In truth, we are both damaged souls, you and I
Just that with your easy smile you were way better at
pulling off a lie
For a time we knew magic, every waking second was bliss
Wonder how and why things started to go amiss
My adorable intervention, you’ve got some serious divinity in
you
You vanquished my demons, the light inside me shone anew
Gave love a chance for the 7251934th time
How rich I’d be if every time they’d given me a dime
My near and dear ones’ warnings and protests rang loud and
shrilly
Oblivious to their reprimands, I lost myself to the
perfection of our melody
Nothing else mattered and I surrendered to the whims of my
heart
Little did I know, we were tainted by her shadow right from
the start
The Revenant
It’s not always rainbows and sunshine, life gets tough
We succumbed to its pressures, love got a bit rough
But in the moments we stole, I always found my little
infinity,
The wickedest of Wednesdays and an inexplicable synchronicity
Then something changed, you changed
The cloudless blue sky, it darkened and it rained
Like a vicious snake rearing its head,
She slithered into your consciousness, it all became red
Silently stalking us, I call her figure The Revenant,
Resurrected multiple times by feelings remnant
She wears talismans of Time that render my attempts helpless
Everything I do is negated, such is her serpentine prowess
The past, now you’re under her spell and I wish I knew a
remedy
I curse Time, thinking it will be my endless enemy
The End
The end we both had known, was something impending
Beautiful and terrible, my love, you were unrelenting
When you said it out loud, the blow couldn't have cut deeper,
Sealing the fate of our love in the grim delivery of a reaper
Days later your words finally sank their weight into the
depths of my soul
Hope, gasping and grasping, as I plummeted into this
bottomless hole
Drowning in the blood shed from our severed hearts,
I felt my spirit dissolve and disassemble into parts
The Revenant knew her victory then
You were possessed before the clock had struck ten
The Aftermath
Scrambling among the debris, I desperately reach out to you,
Flailing hands clutching at air, seeking something to hold
on to
But you’re long gone now, or are you?
I’m hurting every second, I feel so blue
Deny everything but search within and you’ll know it’s true
Even when my light is dying, my heart knows it has you.
© Akanksha Chauhan
