--- title: When i close my eyes date: 2008-08-01T11:09:26Z modified: 2009-05-22T15:00:50Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/when-i-close-my-eyes/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 302 categories: - Love Poems featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/beach-i.jpg" author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2009-05-22T15:00:50Z tags: - Love Poems --- ![beach](http://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/beach-i.jpg) standing here at a break of dawn watching the golden sun slowly break out of its “trap” i close my eyes i close my eyes and see images streaming in of incidents, events, people from the past and the present the past just whizzes by stopping only to remind me of the mistakes that had happened and those that i had once done images from the present slowly play themselves in a slideshow things that happened yesterday things that happened a minute ago seemingly going on and on it stops abruptly it stops at an image that is not part of me a scene i had only imagined of you and me [together](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/when-we-are-together.md) under a moonlit sky [holding on](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/holding-on.md) to each other in the darkness that had engulfed me you came in and shone a light no gunshots, no bloodshed the darkness surrendered itself to the light and i fell in love with you —————————————— image courtesy: google. i do not hold any copyright to it.