Poem: Fragments of a Dream

Fragments of a Dream stutter my sleep

Memories or myths buried so deep

Places I’ve never been, Faces I’ve never seen

Drift across in a luminous sheen

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Who are you that haunts my nights

Just in the shadows. teasing the lights

Tears I’ve never shed, lying in my rumpled bed

Melancholy fills my aching head

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Something about your face draws me close

There’s an invitation in your brows

Lips I’ve never kissed whisper things that I’ve missed

A feeling of loss I cannot resist

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Were you with me in another life

Were you my love, my loss, my strife

Answers I’ll never get, questions I’ll never ask

As I wake up to assume this life’s mask

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Mohan Kumar