With increasing responsibilities and unending efforts to give and to be your best in all you do; certain revelations leave you spell bound in the midst of a hectic day……….
The more I look around…..and the closer I analyse people’s lives….I feel there is nothing in the world as gratifying as having siblings to fall back upon. A wave of gratitude sweeps over and I can’t thank enough……any amount of giving back would fall short against the gifts our parents gave us.
Quite often we complain…….that there isn’t time to communicate; yet the “how-are-you” echoes in the heart in the middle of a busy day. Days and months pass………yet even a very long interlude cannot take away the comfort felt on hearing…”how are you doing these days?”
Then there are so many memories to fall back upon………..the pranks, purposely tearing off the posters on the walls, conspiring to hide facts like poor grades, sultry afternoons, sneaking out for biking and stealthily returning, stealing pickles from the pantry while one kept guard( usually the younger one was adjudged this task)…….oh!….the list is endless.
The Sun still rises
And the moon still beckons
At night, the guava tree
In our backyard
Still lowers its head
When the breeze flows free
The terrace is still
All aglow…..
when moonlight adorns its pearls
That corner where we ducked in
To spend the entire night
To see how the morning unfurls……
That afternoon when you forced me
Dear brother,
To climb the mango tree
And how you never helped me descend;
It often comes back
How you laughed with glee……
The drinks we shared
And passed wicked smiles
When any of our mischief was unobserved
“We can do this again….”
Said the gleam in our eyes…….
The inward eye
Still watches you……..
I know you must feel the same
No matter what we do;
We cannot forget every little game……..
Only let me know
If the terrace still abounds
In memories of yesteryears…….
And the moon…….
Does it still hide behind the clouds
When under the open skies we slept………
Days and nights
Of togetherness
Are witness to the strong ties we share
No matter how unnerving the challenges,
I know we can dare………..
To keep alive the childhood glee……..