Vikram Seth's 'Protocols': Unveiling Hidden Truths in Poetic Form ✍️

What can I say to you? How can I retract <br />All that that fool my voice has spoken - <br />Now that the facts are plain, the placid surface cracked, <br />The protocols of friendship broken? <br />I cannot walk by day as now I walk at dawn <br />Past the still house where you lie sleeping. <br />May the sun burn these footprints on the lawn <br />And hold you in its warmth and keeping.<br /><br />Vikram Seth<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/protocols/