IMPRINTS

 

KOTA S. R. SARMA

 

I vainly seek your feet’s imprints

            That can’t be wiped away by Time!

One here! I think you stopped for me,

            For me to gaze on unseen you.

 

Is it phantom scents now breezes bring

            In the lonely woods we together walked?

Here linger still my vacant looks

            To meet with something – memory like!

 

Is this the cup emptied by you

            That passed between us courierwise,

Which laughs at me in cracky lees

            To be filled by me with thirsty sighs?

 

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