Emotional Passage by Archana Kapoor Nagpal

Emotional Passage

By Archana Kapoor Nagpal

My chest feels tight,
And I gibber in hysteria,
Unfailing memory of our love,
Four decades of this togetherness,
The gentle wind surrounds me,
Rustling through these leaves,
The poignant epitaph,
And these white flowers on your grave,
 
I walk around impatiently,
But you shall rest in peace,
I still remember your smile,
That never-ending shine in your eyes,
Tears roll down my cheeks,
My heartbeat goes up, and then down
All eyes are set on me,
As I read your eulogy.
 
I wrote this last night,
I turn, and unfold it,
Thinking why I wrote,
Though I carry your heart in me,
I keep the eulogy aside,
And close my eyes,
To feel the feeling,
That holds us together, so tight.
 
Words flow from the heart,
And I can hear my sigh,
I am numb to things around me,
But your soul still resides in me,
People smile as I finish,
Understanding this emotional passage,
Where I don’t walk alone,
As we still hold hand in hand.



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 About the author: Archana Kapoor Nagpal is an internationally published author of four books – '14 Pearls of Inspiration', 'The Road to a Positive Life', ‘A Haiku Per Day’ and 'The Fragrance of a Beautiful Life'. She often participates in the short story competitions, and her winning stories are now part of international anthologies - 'New Love: Anthology of Short Stories' and the ’12 Facets of a Crystal’. She has seen her short stories, poems and Haiku published in other anthologies as well – ‘A Pinch of Love, Peace and Humanity ’, ‘Atoms of Haiku’, and the ‘Ripples of Love’. She has also been actively involved in the editing, proofreading and book designing of these three anthologies.
 
She has also seen her poems published in numerous other literary journals, blogs, websites and anthologies including Friday Gurgaon, Whispers, Writers Asylum, VerseWrights, The Bamboo Hut, Frogpond (Issue 37-2) – The Journal of the Haiku Society of America, Under the Basho, Asahi Haikuist Network, HOO-Knows Home & Family Magazine, Harvests of New Millennium (Art & Poetry), Gems (An Anthology of haiku, senryu and sedoka), Taj Mahal Review (An International Literary Journal ), Frameless Sky, Tamarind Magazine, A Hundred Gourds 4.1, DailyHaiga, brass bell: a haiku journal, UHTS (United Haiku and Tanka Society) Cattails, Tulip, Paper Wasp, Prune Juice (Journal of Senryu Kyoka & Haiga), Gnarled Oak, Faces and Places – Haiku Anthology, The Mustard Grain, Ershik #9, Modern Haiku (45:3 Issue), Issa’s Untidy Hut, hedgerow: a journal of small poems, NeverEnding Story (Butterfly Dream Haiku), Chrysanthemum 17 and many others. Her haiku and senryu are translated into Chinese, German and Russian as well. Her two poems – ‘God on Facebook’ and ‘Circle of Life’ are highly acknowledged by other poets, and her readers as well. She has written poems around empowerment of women in India, and eradication of the social evils – dowry, female foeticide, et al.
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