[ from the collection of — echoes to Nowhere ]

Forgotten Hallways

To the Love that I would somedy shatter: It came to me as a haunting dream — a broken hallway forgotten in reality.


- 6 -

He plummeted down
torn drapery in
faded crimson
of which this
Hallway
Hangs an array
from its
High
Ceiling lifted by a shared future.

He scuttles down
worn floor boards
under roughed carpet
of which each
squeak
dissolves into this
vacuumed
corridor stretched by
endless doorways

He disappears
soundlessly



into a room
where He
crouches
in a distant
corner
of closing walls and
shadowless floors,

sneaking in
voices,
laughters,
smooches
of an erased past

emanating
from this empty room.

And then I realise,
It is I,

foraging the trenches
in my mind,
concealing a forgotten little boy
clutching on to
forsaken memories
of a forlorn remnant
of Our discarded Love.