Written piece
Stages of missing her
Gayathri R
India
About this piece
This poem, "Stages of missing her", talks about the emotional abandonment after losing loved ones to death. However, at the end, time heals every wound, but the stages between the first heartbreak and the constant scar left inside the victim's soul matter in this journey.
Stages of missing her
That was a season of prayer,
and a matter of tears.
The universe didn't have my back
My own thoughts bothered me in packs.
It started as the fear of missing you,
but turned into the fear of missing your warmth,
and pushing the burden towards my breath
Those were the later stages of missing you
Missing the admiration you had for my childish version,
and my super aggression.
Yes, I missed you, for I can't be myself anymore.
Right, you are not here anymore?
It's now the matter of missing memories of you,
Which were once in the pain of losing you.
The memories that once filled my entire soul started fading away!
While I try to hold on.
Now, it's the matter of missing that pain,
and this is the thought perplexity in between
So, are all these turned into illusion to become delusion?