It Never Ends

She's gone
And I am left alone
What will I do
What must, should I do
So soon it seemed our time together
Ended in a few shared hours
How I wish there was a permission I had
To hibernate like a winter lizard
And no unsettling wait
Like dead
For your return
Oh Summer.

You completed me
And yet the true me
Tried - failed
to convince you
That together we are complete
And incomplete we will be
For how long hence.

It never ends
And one day
You will weigh
My being me
Your being you
Over what I am not
And return you will
Oh bright summer.

And how
Will I have
To without you live
In the fog you think
Cannot be dispelled.

Everything is glaucous
All enshrouded
Take me oh life and obliterate me
From myself
Until the thaw melts.

                                                                                                      -    Ramakant Pande