To the point of no return

December 31st, 1998 admin Posted in Poetry |

Time flies, they say, but you flew faster,
too many to beat before the disaster.
Things are too hard to explain, too easy to evade,
you’re gone before you came, only wishing you stayed.

You lost all you had in trying to beat
the few you hated,
the few you loved were slow,
but you couldn’t have waited.

As you higher,
in a frenzy fled,
forgot that with each step
you crushed someone’s head.

You relished no victory,
for you knew no defeat,
you stood so tall
that you forgot your feet.

You had too much to do,
too far to go,
too many people to be with,
too few to know.

You had too much to promise,
too much to dream,
till you knew you were going mad,
but had no time to scream.

Faster, faster, faster still you flew,
crossed every limit, every star you knew.
At last you knew you’d won the race,
but then it struck you that there was no one to face.

No one to see how much farther you leap,
no shoulder to rest your head on and weep,
no one to care if you laughed or cried,
no one to notice if you lived or died.

Anil Krishna
1998