Heartless

The girl who never loved me back...

Shoaib Rashid

Lost in her Shadow

As truly said by someone “The love that lasts the longest is the love which is never Returned.”

Walking by these empty lanes, I see myself fading away...

Yet I know...

Somewhere deep inside of you, you loved me back and it was true...

I tried to say, I tried too hard... Each moment I missed, a moment of love...

Now just left with memories back when, A lonely man trailing the solitary lanes...

Love was there and love will be...

The flames will burn in the air it breathes.

Even though you never loved me back, I’ll love you for eternity. You’ll never know, how much you mean to me...

I didn’t know how to confess what my feelings are;

If only I could know, if the doors to your heart were ajar...

I would’ve poured out what I felt back then.

Heartless

And those times have passed...

Just left with memories back when, Now a lonely man trailing the solitary lanes...

It was too late then, you were gone... But this day I have so much to say, No time to dream, nowhere to sway.

Just one chance to tell you that is all I need...

How much I loved, for you I lived.

And here I am, forever yours to stay... Yes I mean forever, for that I will try, Too late to feel this way... But I will try it again someday...

And then I fall back...

And think of the times back when...

We were young and we were friends.

And as time has passed, things have changed, I am still in your love, but you have moved away.

—shoaib rashid

I have been writing since my childhood days and have a great interest in poetry as well

As writing stories and personal accounts with an emotional touch... mostly based on Experiences and random thoughts. (Winner – heartless)

Preface

We always question destiny that it never gave us the chance on love... But isn’t the real question whether we gave ourselves that chance?

Chapter 1

Present Day... Mumbai

Darkness all around. Vision getting blurred. It takes some time for the eyes to get Adjusted to sudden darkness or brightness. Just like in life, we are always taken aback by Sudden pleasure or pain, the same feeling of breathlessness, why does it always Surround me. I am gasping for air and not getting much success. Someone pushing me From behind; in turn I am pushing the one in front of me. You’ve to impel others to get What you want; you can’t blame others as everyone including yourself is doing the same. I can feel the adrenalin rush. Everyone has to run as they have a place to reach, a place They call home – a home where someone is waiting for them, who will be worried if they Are late. But me, I am just getting dragged along the crowd as I have no place to reach, No place to call a home, no family to wait for me. Look at the irony of the situation – life Is making me smirk at my very own misery! It’s really funny, even if you aren’t making any effort to move on, you will, as time Never stops. You feel nothing much is going to change but it does, slowly and gradually Without you ever noticing.

People who are important will cease to matter six years from now if they walk out of Your life at this point. You won’t forget them but you won’t even recall them every ‘now And then’, even if it was the person you were once ‘madly in love ‘with. You may still be In love with that person, but other things will get in your head and your lover’s Memories will be locked behind a door you would rarely visit. The time progressed a minute or few and I was out of that overfilled passage. Huh! It’s Friday, so I am travelling by locals. It feels great to be around so many people whom