It was a persistent longing
A nagging wish –
For that deep and knowing nod and smile…
From that someone, who you know so well…
I wait and look for it, and gradually feel it at every instant,
And when it comes back,
My mind dances to the rhythm of that touch
The past comes to me like the angel of truth
Spreading the brightness of truth around her
She arrives like the forest on fire
Blazing to devastate the wilderness which stunt the growth of beauty
It is that one moment that I longed for
That one knowing moment
That moment of togetherness
It is that skein of togetherness
Which anchored our lives together
Which embroidered those two long decades
It was that skein which went through they eye of my needle
And instilled in me an impulse to stitch the hem of my life
As days went by I realized that it was only the hem that was sewed
There was so much still left to sew
So much more to design and fashion
Out of one’s thoughts, experiences and emotions
My mind then travels forward in the space of time
Trying to bridge the past with the future;
And perceives that image when at the brink of life
ME – the tailor of my LIFE – visualizing
That huge garment which had till then adorned me
At that brink of Life – I felt –
I wouldn’t want to see a ‘waste of wasted years’… not anymore…
It's lovely. Thoughts that hem the very fabric of life. Very philosophical and very much the way we remember our lives.
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