Where were you?

Where were you?

When I cried out your name,

and heard not even my own echo…

Where were you?

When I walked in haste and bewildered among the crowds;

every face bearing your likeness, and yet

YOU were no where to be found…

Where were you?

When a single kind word uttered through your sweet lips, 

was the only remedy to my ill faded affliction…

Where were you?

When lost in thought and lost in time,

I watched days slip into nights and nights into days;

as I stared through the window of my memories!

Burned and broken, void of all pride;

a fetus, crouched in a corner of an empty room;

I took refuge in the womb of your silence…

Where were you?

Where were you?

Where were you?

…

My incubation, pain and sorrow;

my gestation, mourning and regret…

A seedling of change,

I was reborn, 

an orphan!!!