Sanjhee Gianchandani - Distance

Sanjhee Gianchandani - Distance

Sanjhee Gianchandani holds a Masters’ degree in English from Lady Shri Ram College for Women and a CELTA from the University of Cambridge. She worked as an English language assessment specialist. Her love for publishing brought her to her current job as an ELT editor in the K-8 space. She compulsively writes poetry to fill in the interstices in her day. Her poems have been published at several places including Madras Courier, eFiction India, LiveWire, Setu, Indian Ruminations, Otherwise Engaged Journal and Poetry Northern Ireland. 

Distance

Screaming your name from the rooftop,

yet you seem impervious to it

typically how relationships are

distraught bit by bit

existence precarious psychologically

and so vulnerable our sanity

life is a continual negation

of hopelessness and despair

and we entangle our relationship

in the web of uncertainties

it all seems like a dream

within a dream

the stars seem much nearer

and farther do you seem

in life we realise that

no place is further away

in death; between Hell and Heaven we sway

can we not break the ice

with a simple phone call

has this created so huge a wall?

for love knows no boundaries

we’ve heard this for centuries

yet you cannot hear me

from across the room

or perhaps you don’t want to

remains an unresolved mystery