Geeta Govindam - 2

Published: 12th December 2025

Category: Relationships

We met when my world was a tangled maze,

cold and unkind,

your smile, like sunlight spread,

chasing clouds and clearing my mind.

A fleeting spark of life’s surprise,

You were a horizon, vast and wide,

and I, just a tether,

aching to be by your side.

I carried burdens deep and still,

like storms that roared with quiet will,

responsibilities etched in blood and bone,

a future mostly lived alone.

You dreamed of open skies,

a life beyond, a life I could hardly recognize.

A path I could not walk or see,

a world so far from reaching me.

My love was gentle, pure and free,

but love alone can’t feed a family tree.

Ambitions don’t rest on the past,

and dreams won’t hold when moments pass.

We knew it then, without a sound,

that love would break when we were bound.

As you chased stars, I held the earth,

a life of toil, for all it’s worth.

Years slipped by like winds that roam,

you built empires, I barely built a home.

And in hollow places, shadows grew,

I ask myself often, “What more could we do?”

"Could we have bent the world in two,

to fit the dream that we both knew?"

"Could we have carried a life more kind?"

Or was it all just pre-defined?

The space between us is more than time,

it’s every word we didn’t rhyme,

every choice we let slip by,

every tear we didn’t cry.

Now, as we stand in this quiet place,

I see your eyes,

I feel your grace.

And when you speak, your voice so soft,

I hear the years we shrugged off.

Your smile, you ask with longing true,

“Why couldn’t you come?”

A question that cuts through and through,

and in that moment, the air stands still.

I ache, I burn, with tears my eyes do fill,

And from my heart, a truth runs deep,

“Why couldn’t you stay?”

Questions neither could answer,

but both still keep.