Dear Indrani – Welcome to Writing.com. I am glad you are a part of this amazing writing community now. I enjoyed reading "THE EMPTY CHAIR"  and I am glad to offer a few of the thoughts I had while reading your poem.
 
  FIRST IMPRESSION
 
Between the time when parents, school, peers, scholars and friends tell us what “it is all about,” and the time we, leaning on our walking frames and gulping down 11 life sustaining medications, know more about what life has been about, there is a wonder. It brings on to many a depression, anxiety and fear that won’t allow one to actually explore with gusto the boundaries of life. Life becomes an endless wave of stuff that happens to us. But there is more and not a bore, isn’t there?

 
  THEME
 
Life seems to slip by with moments of thrill followed by endless days of seeming nothingness. What is the way? What is the meaning? Is there a book from which I can receive knowledge of the way? Within me I know my answer…now. But there were times. Dark times.
 
  STRUCTURE
 
The poem has four stanzas written in free form. The images center around an empty chair, where we are to imagine what is significant about the one who will not return.
 
  MY FAVORITE MOMENT
 
The poem, with its lonely feel opens the mind to a mystery and this was my favorite moment:

The chair will not be filling up
But the presence will linger
And the memories will guide me further.

The end of the poem speaks of why we have lingered so long before the chair wondering about its emptiness. Whoever is missing from the scene will be remembered and those memories may be what will guide us into all truth and wisdom. A time of meditation.
 
 
  SUGGESTIONS
 
Your poem is written well enough to convey the message you wish your readers to entertain and I is well written that way you have created it.

  IN SUMMARY
 
"THE EMPTY CHAIR"  sets before us a wonder about how we gain true wisdom. We can meditate on the past, consider our future and align our thoughts with those who have walked the path thousands of times before us. It is there we choose to believe what is, not by what we experience or what others have said, but by our own faith. I have chosen to believe the Bible as the one true resource for discerning what is. And in the end, my righteous Companion is coming back. Thanks for sharing your gift. Write On!
 
I hope my thoughts and impressions have been a help. Let me know if you have any questions about my review.
 
Kind Regards,

♫~ Kenword~♫
 

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