ECHOES AND RIPPLES

I've now moved beyond your time and space,

Fresh eyes perceiving, of people and place

Until your smell wafts under my nose

present right there, with my eggs and toast

Memories keep shimmering and rippling

echoes of pleasure and pain crippling.

Present moment returns, it all solidifies,

until I'm taken away again by your cries.

Echoes of your voice guiding me to Trust

not to be weighed down by Shoulds and Musts

I catch a glimpse of hazel almond eyes

In a crowd of grey indifferent, people-skies..

Ripples and Samskaras echo on forever

by nature, their duty, there is no never..

Echoes and ripples hypnotise all our minds

Until new stories and pathways we seek to find

You're still living in my bones and in my skin

though no longer have my mind as your win.

With awareness, the ripples do often subside

From the echoes of You, I no longer need to hide.