Nor Here Nor There

" What is it.

Where are you? "

She whispered to the convoluted air.

As its reverberating echoes continued

Calling out for her from somewhere

He stands disapprovingly witnessing this

Her faraway demeanour, both haunting yet austere

He reconsiders his option to leave,
Is she beyond repair?

"Who is it you call for? He asks again,

Who dyu whisper to when clearly, nobody's there?

That you seek anybody else while I bequeath myself as yours

Is a travesty I refuse to bear! "

She slowly takes a step back, then one more

Eyes brimming in despair

"I have to say a no.. Sire, I have to go

I can't reciprocate the affections you declare."

"I apologize but it isn't you, I assure

But its only his voice that I hear,

And they call out to me, repeatedly

Like the times I wish for him in my prayer"

"So even though my heart is breaking,

Everyday is a war and I am scared

But I am not for anyone's else's taking

For I can't be here and he won't have me there"

Bereft of him now, every time the air beckons
She will find herself beckoning back
It takes all but a sign for her to reckon
And a delusional heart to lose its track.