Hardened

June 15th, 2006 admin Posted in Poetry |

With hope alone, comes dejection
Only expectations come crashing down,
Sacrifice leads only to more,
Where there is care, strife abounds.

Giving up is near and it teases,
Not caring is not too hard,
Yet love flutters briefly, struggles,
The heart hurts, burned and scarred.

It reminds itself of times gone by,
Memory is an innocent cloud,
Thoughts of promises kept and made,
Return with glimpses of happiness vowed.

The heart enchanted, seeks a fall,
Into what makes it feel alive,
Into hopes, efforts and promises,
Faith, trust and dreams naive.

It breaks again. It mends again.
And breaks a few times still.
Blinding drops of tears well up,
The remains are shards, gone is the will.

The heart once soft, accepts its greying world,
And gives up trying.
A hardened heart lives alone,
But never ends up crying.

( Anil Krishna, June 15th, 2006)