Echoes of Lost Love: A Journey of Regret and Longing

 Echoes of yesterday murmur softly, so sweet,

A melody of dreamy notes, complete.

Images of long-lost moments flicker

Like ghosts haunting the ruins of a heart

and just begin to whimper

Where love once bloomed in vibrant colors

Now echoes of past linger

Leaving behind bittersweet tears.

 

Find myself tangled in the web of acceptance of parting

That we're no longer bound, just you and me.

you have moved on and fine being friends

But accepting friendship, you see!!

Is a bridge too far for me.

I am still here, stuck in the past

Wandering in shadows, paying the cost

Still drenched in the rain of our lost love

That was so vast

 

I recall the excitement of our first embrace

The mix of emotions, the spark on your face

That first eye-contact, a nervous hand-shake

Shivery voice, heart about to break.

Indeed, it was a story to be told,

Your smile, more precious than gold

Oh, the memories play on repeat

Of a love that’s now discrete.

 

But now, I'm enfolded in your presence,

Gazing at your photograph

Each glance evokes your essence,

Recalling cherished memories of past.

 

I understand now,

I can't ask someone to stay by my side.

You chose to step away,

And for that, I blame myself in endless replay

But before vanishing from my world,

Leaving me alone,

You could have taught me

On the art of acceptance,

Teaching me the way to greet each dawn

Without having first thought of you.

Taught me how to pass a day, without feeling blue

To start my day without your name on my lips

Or at least with just one thought, a quick glimpse.

You could have shown me how to navigate

A day free of your presence,

Or at least,

You could have reclaimed the precious bag of memories,

Was that too much to ask for?

 

I don't know if you still hold me tight,

Or if my name echoes in your night.

I don't know if I still cross your mind's flight,

When our "Rang Lageya" plays, lost in twilight.

 

We embarked this path.

you chose the closure.

No finger to point, no one to blame

yet inside I am weighed by shame.

It feels like my fault, deep within

I just didn’t know how to express my emotion

To treat you right

There were countless amount of chances

But I still couldn’t get anything right.

Said this earlier,

There were others before you

But meeting you, shut all the doors

You were all I craved, all I knew.

You were everything I hoped for,

And made my dreams come true and more.

 

Even the thought of you hating me

Just haunts me, it’s all I can see.

My heart aches with every passing day

As I try to push the thoughts away

I feel so pathetic, so weak

Never thought it would come to this

Me, begging for love I might miss

 

Oh, how I wish to turn back time

 Make things right, make you mine

But alas, I cannot change the past, it's true,

So I'm left with only the thought of you.

 

Not a day passes without regret

That I can’t forget

And always it’s only You I see

Echoing the lyrics of Lord Huron’s plea:

“I had all and then most of you

Some and now none of you

Take me back to the night we met

I don’t know what I am supposed to do

Haunted by the ghost of you

Take me back to the night we met”.

 

I know I messed up, I made mistakes

but losing you is a pain that never fades

I am left with regret and sorrow

Knowing that there is no tomorrow.

I know its too late

But I am sorry..

For all the mistakes

That I caused you, dear

I wish I could turn back time,

And, undo all the wrongs

But, I know that’s just a dream

And, now I must face the song.