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Maya
I look into its amber depths
Shimmering golden sparkles leapt
Beckoning me to lose my soul
In the enticing maya* of alcohol
My heart remembers another gold
Those golden eyes whose gaze I hold
And in a blink I lose it all
But was it not a vision to enthrall?
As I live in this mindless stupor
About me I feel her presence hover
Was it just my imagination or was that her touch?
I reach out for her but its empty air that I clutch
My drunken mind taunts my broken heart
With what I can have no more, with what I had to part
Maya**, she left me without even a goodbye
Reducing our togetherness to a painful lie?
Without her, I want now to quietly die
And all I want to ask her is "Why?"
-Marisha
September'03
(*maya : illusion esp. the material word regarded as unreal, Hindu Philos.
**Maya : also a common Indian Name)