Those who stood close to you and were dear- <br />You will forget them in the flow of time, my friend, <br />Life's uneven road curves in and out <br />And suddenly they disappear beyond the bend- <br />Disappear as suddenly as first appeared. <br />Perhaps the darkness of the night swallowed them <br />While you came marching across the night. <br /> <br />Those who were once dear are today <br />Only faint memories of the mind: <br />Bodiless and immaterial phantoms of the heart. <br />The feeling dead leaves dry and rotting bones <br />But love cannot live on fond regrets. <br />If old love has now become a shadow of the past <br />Better dark oblivion hide it in darker shades.<br /><br />Humayun Kabir<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/partings-3/
