Our Dying Duet

To my dear best friend I dedicate this duet.
A duet that I will sing alone for the first time.
This duet that narrates our journey up and down the scale,
To find symphonies in words that don’t even rhyme.

From the start let us begin,
When I had first heard you play the violin.
Oh, how you thought you were not good.
But you felt music the way none of us ever understood.

I never knew that was the start of something,
Of something unforgettably rare.
With every symphony we wrote and sung,
Both of us resurfaced from our dreadful despair.

And so we wrote and sang together.
Each and every song had parts of our soul.
But our passion for music soon became a sensation.
None of us knew we could be so much more.

Around the world we went to sing the lyrics to our symphonies.
And with your smile and voice always by my side,
I was living the life I had only ever dreamed.

From long walks and cat-fights,
To mid-day coffee sessions and intoxicating nights.
We were always together and never apart.
Because though unknowingly, we had exchanged our hearts.

Blushing under the cherry blossoms,
You sang me the song you wrote for me.
Happily chatting about the harmony of love,
We used to sit under the blooming tree.

You listened to me and I heard you,
And even our silence used to sing,
All the words our lips couldn’t do.
But now that you’re lost and gone,
I feel so empty and withdrawn.

All my rhyme and lyrics seem so wrong,
Without you I can’t and won’t sing our songs.
Because losing you to oblivion I lost my voice too.
All I wonder now is why tragedy had to consume us two.

To my dear best friend I dedicate this duet.
This duet that will be my last.
Because as I near the end of this tragic tale of ours,
As I end this eulogy knowing that you’re looking down at me from among the stars.
I will soon fall down beside your bones,
And may we forever hold hands even under our gravestones.

-Megha Bhartiya 💜

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