Sometimes - Visitor's Poem

by Barnali Saha
(Nashville, TN)

Sometimes I miss you more than the world,
Sometimes I yearn for your touch,
When beside me you sit and breathe,
I long to smell that warmth.

Sometimes I feel I love you more than the world,
more than the "things" I crave.
Incapacitated by a strange numbness, seldom I can say,
That I uncontrollably want you, just you.
Like an insensate, pummeled lump of clay,
Drowned, I the troglodyte might lay,
I know to my rescue you would come.
Despite the curmudgeon that I have been, unknowingly.

Yet, devoid of all feelings, numb, soporific when I am,
An inkling of hope in me springs out,
And like a lightning, a shot of acute pain
It tells me that you are the only "thing" I want.

Written by Barnali Saha Banerjee
Nashville TN