Thursday, 2 October 2014

What if - a poem by Chris Zachariou


A girl amidst a backdrop of flowers, evoking the essence of poignant poetry. From the Melancholy Poems by Chris Zachariou
A Girl Amidst Flowers


All I have are memories—

love and loss, pain and despair;
the remorseless spiral into sorrow
and then the slow crawling back
until I learned to live again.

I imagine the next time we meet.
But will there ever be a next time?

What if
we don't recognise each other

anymore or flowers are no longer
in your life.

What if
when I look into your eyes
I do not see that girl
I loved 
once so very much.

What if
I am not brave to tell you
how I died when we said goodbye.
Will you listen to my tears?

I lie perfectly still in misery.
There are a thousand pictures
swirling inside my head.

What if, what if, what if.


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