WHERE WERE YOU...

WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I WANTED YOU

WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I NEEDED YOU ?

HOW COULD I LOVE YOU ?

IF HATRED IS ALL I HAVE LEARNT FROM YOU;

DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW MUCH

I MEANT TO SHOW ?

WELL, YOU PUSHED ME AWAY

EVERY TIME I NEEDED TO

EVERY TIME I MEANT TO SHOW.

YOU WERE NEVER THERE

WHEN I NEEDED YOU

WHEN I WANTED YOU;


SO I LOOKED FOR LOVE

FOR LOVE DID I SEARCH ALL AROUND BUT NEVER FOUND.

STRENGTH SHOULD I HAVE HAD,

IF I HAD FOUND LOVE.

BUT NONE DID I RECEIVE

MORE SO PROFOUND,

SUCH AS THAT WHICH I SOUGHT FROM YOU:

WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I NEEDED YOU

WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I WANTED YOU;

TO HOLD ME WHEN THE FIRST FALL I DID HAVE

TO LIFT AND HOLD SECURE,

TILL ON MY FEET ONCE AGAIN I COULD STAND:




AND SO THE BUD DID BLOOM.

NEVER KNOWING WHAT DANGERS UNTOLD

DID LIE IN HER PATH,

THAT LED TO WHO KNOWS WHERE!

THEN PLUCKED ONE TOO MANY TIMES

KNOWING NOT THE CONSEQUENCES

LAID MY SOUL BARE DID I

TO EVERY ONE WHO CARED OR WHO SO APPEARED.

THUS DID THE FLOWER WILT

BURNT AND SHRIVELED.

TORN FROM ITS HAVEN OF DREAMS,

PETALS STREWN ACROSS THE FIELD OF LIFE;

WHO KNOWS WHAT FATE WOULD BEFALL

THE FLOWER THUS TAINTED AND DESTROYED.

THERE I WAS THE FLOWER

THAT LAY BLEEDING DRY,

WONDERING WHAT AND WHERE

I COULD HAVE GONE WRONG.





WHEN FROM THE PATH I DID STRAY

SILENTLY MY TEARS DID FALL

ONLY TO MAKE ME RECALL

AND MY HEART ALOUD DID CRY,

WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I NEEDED YOU

WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I WANTED YOU?





DID YOU NEVER THIS REALIZE?

LOST AS THOU WERE IN THINE OWN WORLD

OF ANGER AND FRUSTRATION.

BOUND THUS BY HATRED,

A FORTRESS YOU DID BUILD IN A WORLD

OF THINE OWN MISERY AND DESPAIR.

DID NOT THY THOUGHTS FOR ONCE RETURN,

TO THE PAST LONG GONE?

OR THE BABE NEW BORN

THAT THEE DID BRING OUT IN THIS WORLD UNSAFE.

HOW THEN CAN THOU SEEM

SO UNAFFECTED AND SERENE

WHEN I OFFERED THEE MY TALE

OF SORROW AND PAIN,

WROUGHT OF THE SCARS

BAKED IN THE BLOOD I SHED IN VAIN;

WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I NEEDED YOU,

WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I WANTED YOU,

MY FATHER MY FRIEND ??




V .Tejaswini

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