A message to an unknown friend
A message to an unknown friend :
Friend … give a day for me from a day of yours , a day saved by stitching hours and minutes from those moments when you have wanted to share a piece of your mind …and then when we meet …we soak our whole day in the yellow sunshine of happiness …. bask in every memoir which is reminiscent of our childhood … shower in those little drops of innocence once more … turn the leaves back and pull a page from my first crush and your first sweet tear of love … live that almighty crush and your first moist eyes in love , one more time. Remember those futile attempts to keep forgetting the maths exam as if it were never there in the calendar … how dearly we wish we could meet those bitter moments once more , and this time with an assurance that they were destined to be coated sweet through time’s passage.
That yellow bird whose name I never knew, perched on the ageless Bell Tree near my window, will take flight once more , and the old bangle seller, whose face you had never seen and yet his voice filled your lonely childhood afternoons .. will trudge back one more time on that shady lane of yours.
And then when we are tired surfing through the sunshine … we allow the day to pass into dusk , my shoulders for you and yours for mine, as the canopy of gray engulfs us ….we light a candle to celebrate , I light another to look at the tears that kiss your cheek wet ….
The night will pass into the lap of a new sun…a new day in the life of friends … it’ll again be the same din of your life and mine …. as we bid innocence on its one way road, a last bye .
PS : A blogger’s article doesn’t need any explanation on what , why or why not ? As a passing note , this article is a short testimony to my lost innocence … the fervour of childhood friendships and a yearning to relive few moments from those good old days.
Sree said,
March 21, 2010 at 10:08
ye daulat bhii le lo, ye shoharat bhii le lo
bhale chhiin lo mujhase merii javaanii
magar mujhako lautaa do bachapan kaa saavan
vo kaagaz kii kashtii, vo baarish kaa paanii
muhalle kii sabase nishaanii puraanii
vo budhiyaa jise bachche kahate the naanii
vo naanii kii baaton mein pariyon kaa deraa
vo chahare kii jhuriryon mein sadiyon kaa pheraa
bhulaae nahiin bhuul sakataa hai koi
vo chhotii sii raaten vo lambii kahaanii
kadii dhuup mein apane ghar se nikalanaa
vo chidiyaa vo bulabul vo titalii pakadanaa
vo gudiyaa kii shaadii mein ladanaa jhagadanaa
vo jhuulon se giranaa vo gir ke sambhalanaa
vo piital ke chhallon ke pyaare se tohafe
vo tuutii hui chuudiyon kii nishaanii
kabhii ret ke unche tiilon pe jaanaa
gharaunde banaanaa banaake mitaanaa
vo maasuum chahat kii tasviir apanii
vo kvaabon khilaunon kii jaagiir apanii
na duniyaa kaa gam thaa na rishton ke bandhan
badii khuubasuurat thii vo zindagaanii