I open my eyes
Dreamily from sleep
With a feeling of ecstasy,
To find myself
Drenched in the moonlight
That falls over me
From the open window
Suddenly I hear a distant muffle,
My heart beats fast
To find another soul
From among all those
Who are death-like
In their sleep
I lower my senses
To the earth,
To listen to a hum…
I thought some heart,
Like my own, is singing,
I find my sanity
Deceiving me, it’s
Not a hum but a sob
With a curse that came
From the depths of a heart:
“I thought
You loved me, I
Thought you
Are my life, and
My destiny.
You liar, you Lo
ser, now you
Leave me in shadows
Of this night of
My lost feelings.”
I hear heavy footsteps
Pass below my window.
I saw a girl in red shirt,
Her black hair
In disarray
A back pack dangling
Over her shoulders.
With a tear in my eye
I look up into the sky,
To find dark clouds
Racing across the firmament.
There is no moon, no bright star
The sky is set
To shed some helpless tears, stars
I try to doze off
Into a deathly sleep, that would
save me from
The bitterness of being alive.
Contributor:
MAMATHA KODIDELA. MS in Computer Engineering from Fairly Dickison University at Teaneck, New Jersey. Some of her poems were published in Telugu newspapers. She has translated 20 stories of Satyajit Ray into Telugu, which Gurram, Maths Tecaher and the Winged Horse. She writes poems in English.
