Before, I learnt to live in present;
The present just went by, quietly;
The numbness of the future came
It had to come eventually, one day...
Now I sit back and remember my past
The past that had to be lovely, I guess,
I loved in it
There is a narrow margin between Reality n Imagination here...For my "Best Friend" to find out...others can't
Before, I learnt to live in present;
The present just went by, quietly;
The numbness of the future came
It had to come eventually, one day...
Now I sit back and remember my past
The past that had to be lovely, I guess,
I loved in it
Not at all the day was silent but me
those green screens, that scented corridor
From where I passed a week before, or two may be
checking my watch; it was my office time
Unknown I went straight, Dr. Roger, my old school mate
Checked my pulse, the heart and eyes
I said “Beating as ever”, and giggled
never knew, that my smiles too, someone was counting
Life changed that day, nah, it’s not life any more
from that day on, I am lying on this bed,
Looking at the dotted sky, birds flying like my thoughts,
hearing those birds, meeting those whom I longed to meet
Two weeks passed, met many old and new
today, no one here but she; the loveliest I knew
I never spoke of pain even to the closest of my pals
today its hard time to keep calm, warm breaths when keep sinking low
Senses; now I started loosing ‘em all
that chirp going silent; light, slowly fading
Nerves loosing their hold over skin
skin, that too getting colder now I guess
“You will get well” few of the words I heard from her
I saw her last time, I guess to see her looking at me; and that is love
To keep her memories forever; forever though going to end soon
Alas, the last breath came out, it’s little longer than the rest…
Silence crept in. silence of death, no different than any other who died. Only difference is that I lt it just once, wont say in my life time, but yaa, at the time to leave behind the smallest thing I ever won.
The time when money ends, friendship ends, relationships break and yes, love too parts away. Love, the word that kept me wondering for long in this life.
Just for pleasing me, I babbled “Will surely meet you again, in some other world” be it a snow flake in your hand, or a fallen winter leaf when you walk along in your garden. Wont’ be able to live long in that world too, but will hope that those moments will come again and again.
I will dream again of you, as snow or as a dried leaf, the day when I’ll come back. Again a snow will fall in love with those light brown eyes; a sunken dry leaf will again see you that day, hoping somethings will still be left to share.
Do feel it that time please… at least for a few moments more…a few moments early
Do hold me that day, the way I held you few years back… You remember right!!!
Long live the beating hearts
Long live thy blooming flowers
Long live the candles’ flame
Long live love; well that’s the game…
Walking adrift by a silent street,
crushing roadside leaves, that came
Thought how different we are from trees
they all silent, but we have that flame
Just that very moment, I crossed a graveyard
seemed like its silence, was screaming to be heard
I stopped and went inside, on the way I saw
an old grave, a verdant tree and a singing cuckoo bird
That stone on that grave, unsoiled by the wind
I went near to read the stone
“Mary 1917- 1955” etched on the top
and indeed the majestic tree where the sun shone
That tree was huge, giving shade to Mary
as if Jesus, to his resting mother
He shakes himself, to fly away the birds
so that she sleeps, and no one to bother
Unseen, unnatural was that love I saw
the loyalty of a son, for his mother below
One on which he grew so tall
who nurtured him, from a seed so small
Next day, I went past that yard
Thought to see again, what love really is
Went inside, but now was numbed
The officials cut that tree or killed it, last night
The one, succumbed to the killers
Mary is alone now, almost like me
I thought “How different I am from her?”
Stoic, we both were, but I moved
I knew, I was dead already…
Who once, loved her, prayed for her life
Crying on a pavement, watching a mob
Big red eyes, hers with cries, others with fury
The scream, waiting to be heard
Some wait to be heard for ever
They don’t go quite, they go damped
Dry are their dreams, drier are the hopes
They say He will come, one day
So what! Sun indeed never sets forever
They say He will come, cure us all
So what! Pain indeed cures its ownself
Part II
Those eyes, half closed, moist
A drop inside,
Ready to form a pearl, the purest of all
Ready to roll down, on those
Snow-white cheeks
Those drops were there, I know
Strong held from long time, infinite time I guess
But had to come out,
When gods cry, why cant she...
The little girl, still searching for life
Still searching Him, for help
"He was crying", she looked
Sobbing kid, almost silent with the lost girlishness
Looking at the mob, He sat with the girl
A bad time for Him, or for her…
My creator; or my sufferer