A Flower Blooms | Laxmi Rameshwar Rao

A Flower Blooms

When did all the flowers bloom?

Another season coming,

Where did all the flowers go?

Was it a long time ago? (l)

 

How did all the flowers grow?

Love tended every one,

Whence will they ever grow?

Can they be again be grown (2)

 

Why do I feel so very alone?

What will make me less forlorn?

Will flowering, colours

Do they in empathy also mourn? (3)

 

Memory here in every stone

No tears over-brim,

Memory wind in Dylan blown

The being’s drone,

With time and med

Better left alone... (4)

 

The Grey-haired, overshadow

With nothing never known

Why am I so longingly, endlessly alone?

Mowed down heartlessly, alone to mourn? (5)

 

Reason’s time is now gone by.

No more time now – bygone,

Goodbye, by and bye (6)

 

Unreasonable I am

A doleful sigh and

I cry and I cry and

Look for consolation

To horizon - the sky (7)

 

Unbecoming am I

In years so have grown - The nasty I – A deploring spy (8)

— Lakshmi Rameshwar Rao