Glass

Today

For a moment

I forgot about gravity

I let go of something made of glass

And didn't realize there was nothing

To stop it from being pulled by gravity

And that is how it was

During those first few days

When nothing important

Stayed in my mind for too long

Unless it was tied to you

And like the glass jar that fell

I too fell

In love with you

And at the exact second

That I realized what was about to happen

The great mistake I had made

Early in the day

The glass hit the floor

And broke into a thousand pieces

And no matter how much I cursed myself

Or the universe

The glass remained broken

Too shattered to be whole again

And that is how I felt

On that godawful day

That I still try so hard to

Forget about

And later in the day

As I was walking past the scene of the crime

From that morning

When I forgot about gravity

For just one moment

Something split open the skin

On my aching feet

And the floor was stained red

In patches

Like an artist's attempt

At something abstract

And it was a fine pain

So unexpected

That it hurt more than it should have

And I wondered how

The shard of glass had

Escaped

Even though I was so careful

That morning

To sweep away

The glass jar I broke

Every small piece of it

And that's how it feels

When on an ordinary day

I remember something or the other

About you

And tomorrow

I will buy a new jar

To be used in place of a jar

That is now a thousand pieces of glass

And as the days pass

I will forget all about the one that broke

The one I dropped

The one that slipped through my fingers

And someday

That will be you and I