As an adolescent, when still harbouring lofty aspirations of writing 
(definitely dont any longer
!), had written a piece with an identical title. however, inclinations to mix 
up machines with
feelings had already surfaced then, and the fact that the feelings were all 
cooked up, imagined,
unfelt, meant that the piece has a very ersatz twang :) inspite of all that 
gory detail, i will
nevertheless inflict you guys with this :

The Void.

Windows of my furnace,
made opaque with,
thick black soot.

Soot caused by years
of stoking fires,
burning passion.

black enough for me
to not discern
friend from foe.

until one day,
a flood of tears,
came and washed away,
all the soot.

Left behind,
pure, pristine,
the blank, grey 
walls of my heart..

With not a speck, 
nor a memory
to blemish
the blank emotionless 
nothingness. 

rgds

--- shilpa srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  
>  
>  
>  
> When I looked up today 
> I couldnt find my companion
> It had hidden there behind the clouds
> It remained oblivious to my forlorn look
>  
> When I searched in my heart 
> I couldn't find myself
> I have left my being
> Only traces of long lost feelings were there
>  
> In my dreams I kept on searching
> For that space to fill my void
> But dreams eluded me like 
> The  rain drop which sank in sand
> What remained
> Only a void waiting eagerly to be filled up.....
> 
> 
> Shilpa Srivastava
>               
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