Friend, are we, in that strangest
World where drifters are seasonal and many
And drift is like a plague that makes
You and I, strangers to our shoulders,
Yet familiar in yesteryear
So don’t kiss me like Judas did once
Sneak up on me from behind
And stab me like Brutus
So that you and I will stay alive till my twilight
As death approaches me
Shovel the years that lie in history’s embrace
And count the counterfeit riches
That we filled out hearts with
And we will surrender to the very time
That brought us together and pulled us apart
Drifters on stray currents
No longer hitchhikers of each other
Diverging in evolution
And until your memory
Bleaches inside, I will look through
Pale ghostly eyes, too distant
Too coarse, too oblivious of me
Too hollow to remember the times spirits toasted
Where our spirits journeyed. As if those
Shot glasses knew how transient friendship was.
Do not weep for us, we were just
A necessity of age that became
A disposable of time.
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Dr Dilantha Gunawardana graduated from the University of Melbourne, as a molecular biologist, and moonlights as a poet. He currently serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Botany, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Dilantha lives in a chimeric universe of science and poetry. Dilantha’s poems have been accepted for publication /published in HeartWood Literary Magazine, Canary Literary Magazine, Boston Accent, Forage, Kitaab, Eastlit, American Journal of Poetry, Zingara Poetry Review, The Wagon and Ravens Perch, among others. Dilantha too has two anthologies of poetry, 'Kite Dreams' (2016) and 'Driftwood' (2017), both brought to the readership by Sarasavi Publishers, and is working on his third poetry collection (The Many Constellations of Home). Dilantha’s pet areas of teaching and research, include, Nitrogen Fixation, RNA biology, Phytoremediation, Agricultural Biology, and Bioethics & Biosafety. Dilantha blogs at – https://meandererworld.wordpress.com/ -, where he has nearly 2000 poems.
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