E - An Epilogue

 

And one fine morning, there it was

Standing outside the Witch's door

With a promise yet again

To befriend till eternity 

A familiar echo of words

Reverberating from the days foregone

That had once ended

Without an epilogue 

Or maybe this too was kind of a sign

Another moment of epiphany possibly 

That to hope for an everlasting vow

Could only but be a bait for the heart

To be trapped again in that labyrinth of hope

But, alas for that stubborn heart's belief 

In all that was infinite or tilted towards it

Like that of eternity and that of hope

And, come to think of it

What if, hope was all but finite

Or even for that matter 

All those promises of eternity

Would life still have turned out to be the same

So, just for that devil called hope

Only for its sole sake

The Witch decided to play host again

To the promise of that thing

Hoping that its wooden bark

Atleast this time, yielded greenery

And if not for eternity 

This one time, maybe 

Whenever that mirage ended

It will end with an epilogue 

PS : This post is posted as part of #BlogchatterA2Z 2021 challenge for the letter E. 

Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April #NaPoWriMo2021 and #ArtoonsInnPoetryParlour