Sunday, August 26, 2012

Indefinable Sadness


(Snapshot from the film 'The Double Life of Veronique')

Wherein lies the genesis of this strange feeling in me?

I am yet to discover

I know for certain it wasn’t sudden…

It overcame me degree by degree in gradual progression,

Till it hit me hard one afternoon


Inconsolable I was
Inexplicable it was

How it took hold of me and all that I knew my life to be


You look in my eyes
And you see
So much sadness in me


I look in them
And I draw a blank
How did I come to be so?


When I examine, I see no reason to be consumed in sadness

Life has been fair, nothing extravagant but nothing to despair


Something must be incomplete in me

Missing notes in a melody
Missing pages of a story


As I looked out through the window pane
Streets and buildings soaked in rain


I burst out crying
Uncontrollably


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