A Fork In The Road
For all those who have parted ways,but will remain with me always.
Our travels together, today,
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End not at our destination
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But at a fork somewhere midway
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And I can sense hesitation
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In your silence. (Can you in mine?)
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Are you too searching for words, which
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Will assuage this pain, make things fine-
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Wipe the tears I shall shed, and stitch
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The wounds that this farewell has brought.
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Are there some words that can console
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My ailing heart, or is there not
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Any way for us to cajole
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Destiny into fulfilling
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Our desire to not separate?
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Can we not delay this parting-
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Defy circumstance and make fate
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Wait some more; lest this be the last
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Time we see each other closely?
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Can we not change the bygone past-
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The moment because of which we
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Might be standing at a crossroads?
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We look at the distance
ahead,
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I am uncertain
what it bodes.
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I am sure we
have been misled,
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By Time that
made us both believe
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The conceit of
Eternity.
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We see now that
Time can deceive
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People escaping
reality.
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You look at me,
I look at you;
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Between us,
there appears to grow
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incertitude-what
must we do
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Before our
indecisions slow
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Us down and
predicaments start
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To weaken our
resolution?
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Let us go our own
ways and part,
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That is the only
solution.
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Perhaps in your
own silent way
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you have accepted
this instance-
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This divergence
that we today
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Can't choose to
offer resistance.
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If this be our
shared destiny,
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Then so be it.
Let us move on
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Different roads
that might not see
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a convergence
that we'll dwell 'pon
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In our false
hopes and promises
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(I will, but you
don't I will pray).
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Let us, with our
goodbyes, end this
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Misery that
leaves nothing to say.
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I know not what
our futures hold
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As we bid each
other adieu,
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And even as our
paths unfold
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I know I'll
never forget you.
To you all. |
