Loneliness

How far we have come
In this journey of life
Floundering, Falling, Rising, Just floating along
 - hoping that we know what is our life's song

Meeting people and then drifting apart
Sometimes it was easy but sometimes quite hard
How we all like to hold on - is it really sweet or sad?
To clutch on to those little memories, whether good or bad!!

We delude ourselves that it is love,
This loss that we are mourning.
For moments bygone, for words left unsaid
This selfish loneliness, that sheer feeling of dread

Carrying on, now trying to relive the moments,
Trying to build something from ashes of dreams long dead
How do we go ahead and get on track
When we keep wanting to look back?

Why is it so difficult to accept that people are passing ships at night
They enrich our lives for whatever time they cross our paths
Maybe they had fulfilled their purpose in our lives when they left
While we remember them and continue to feel bereft

Maybe we will meet again sometime in the future
In this lifetime or the next, but hopefully with greater wisdom
For now, we must take solace for having met each other
Be thankful that at least for sometime we were together