...Twilight...

The sun has long set

Upon my life;

It’s twilight-

Dark, still, silent,

With shadows rife.

Dusk creeps up from behind,

And pounces on the daylight-

Mauls it in the fatal fight,

Leaves it bleeding in the sky.

A silent predator,

Slow and steady,

Sure and sly,

Unseeing and unerring;

Though drunk with youth’s wine,

Hardly did I realise

That just behind the sunshine,

Lurked the murky foe,

Biding his time.

Sombre hues have invaded

My palette that once

Was a riot of colours;

Withered have my flowers,

And the fragrance faded.

The songs have stopped,

I only hear the sands

Fast trickling down

My life’s hourglass.

Oh! It strikes me hard

That my spring is past,

And my winter come;

My thoughts harp

On the night that

Looms ahead sharp,

And the nightmare beyond....

But wait, I suddenly hear

A voice cry out

From deep within:

Despair not so fast!

A night awaits, it’s true,

But lies a morn too

Beyond the gloom.

The darkest hour of midnight past,

Arrives the bright dawn;

And wake up I shall

In that morn, in the

Land of Sleepless Sunshine

That will forever last.

Dearest Shravan,

Do I have to say the words? I know you know.... :)

Tons of love, congrats, best wishes and prayers,
Your twin