In grave of a day

you found your shadow

covert

refrain to bid farewell

hold her upfront

she’s an unfinished act

asking to be played.

In overcoming trials

don’t soar over the heights

climb on rocks

and call it success

In stillness

lenity is tested

perseverance is rubbed off

but it’s a matter of sitting back again

not relaxed but in the same spot

Each chapter ends in many ways

they may be of same genre

but plot and twist are never the same

some binded differently.

In happiness

have what you need

those you don’t hold

you can live without it

put a smile even a little

and find yourself happy

Missing picture of joy

in my smile it portrays blank

like a paper newly woven

no history of pain nor

excitement for tomorrow.

Exactly late this evening

I am puzzling missing pictures

of yesterday spent with you

and of disrupted future we could have.

I don't want to be lost

but what I lack in my heart

are missing pictures of cause

an unknown purpose of life.

These raindrops drumming not

in my ears but in my heart

could it be that washed out

missing pictures of my love.

I ran back because I know

if I move onward I will lose,

and those are the times I know

second chances don’t apply.

And single wrong move

will end the battle

played not just

for one.