A bookmark of memory <br />Guides me again and again <br />To the same chapter, that reads <br />Not more than a single word <br /> <br />I churn in the whirlpool of tears, <br />Tossing from crests to troughs <br />Of the rampant memory wave <br />Caught in circles of pointless ripples <br /> <br />Adversity strikes, time relapses <br />Taking me back to that single moment <br />Where thoughts trivial and vital both <br />Were frozen into an eternal landmark <br /> <br />Driven to the cusp of bliss and tragedy <br />An involuntary thought reaches out to <br />The instant when we both had met <br />And departed in a momentary ‘Handshake’.<br /><br />Seema Aarella<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/after-shocks/
