Pranav Regmi

The Man and the Gull

                Wings
                Spread abreast,
                The gull departs,
                My last friend,
                Leaving me.
                How could I blame
                Such a creature?
                It was only natural,
                I thought.
                In an act of desperation,
                Between staying,
                And leaving our predicament,
                It was only natural.
                Despite being 
                a creature,
                Of such mercurial tendencies,
                He still loved me,
                Didn't he?
                
                Perhaps,
                There was a faint chance,
                A glimmer of doubt,
                Entering my burning mind,
                Without heed.
                He loved me no more,
                That indeed,
                He would never return.
                Yet I had no time to ponder such a thought,
                For the boat had sunken,
                As had I.