Meeting For Dessert

With an empty glass and spotless dishes,

In a room with scent of unfulfilled wishes,

Memories of empty thoughts reside

Among the vacant chairs' mild skirmishes.

 

Where once this room was filled with laughter,

Smiles would fill the air thereafter,

Now the song of silence lives

In the debris of daily disasters.

 

We're lost in islands of grim isolation,

Now under the shade of new expectations;

When once we used to laugh with our hearts,

Now we droop with our minds' calculations.

 

But time can heal as well as hurt,

As memories sadden, but pain avert;

We've had our course in life together,

Perhaps we'll meet again for dessert.

Author's Note

Image courtesy of :
http://www.dezeen.com/2009/07/10/past-memories-by-valentin-loellmann/

Reviews

[Dinesh Sairam]

I've always seen you grow as someone who mixes the classic style with shades of today. Somehow, I couldn't do that perfectly and that's why I like all your such poems. This is one of them. And of course, the different rhyme scheme, aaxa, kudos to that! I thought 'calculations' and 'avert' maybe replaced. Nothing more.

Keep writing.

[Coyote Poetry]

The poem is very good. The detail description and untold story make the poem become alive. I like the description of the room and the items in the room. The ending was excellent. A outstanding poem.
Coyote