There they lay, darned and dusted
Stretching far from where I stood---
Taking bends and turns at places
Lying parallel, just as they should.
Green canopy were over the head
That filtered sunrays bright;
The steel wheels ran on them, harsh
With all their prowess and might!
Pressured, they bore the weight all along,
Complaining not even for a day;
Stretches of land they sang together
Long and strong they lay!
I took a stroll by one of them
Just as we did years ago---
Trying to recollect footprints we’d left
On the sands, just below.
Walking down the tides of time
I saw those marks, four
Said the lines, personified
“Two is here, there must be two more!”
I sighed and said I’m all alone
Trudging along my way
“You two are inseparable, like us
How much weird it sound may.”
Their words evoked disbelief
Staccato was what that came:
Bizarre not only they sounded
I found those totally lame!
“That’s the rock you sat upon,
That’s the field so lush;
Remember how you threw the bottle
After the vodka was drunk in rush?
Walk along with us a few more
To the zebra pitched on the floor:
To the signal where you confessed about her---
Where silence he kept in store.
That’s the bend you rested, tired
His heart beating faster:
‘Fantasy’ you had called somebody,
Tagging the ‘fact’ to her.
Look! There he hugged you tight in arms
Quite unwilling to release—
How gay you thought that to be
But he let you feel the ease.
He stood there tall and dusky
Wearing a bespectacled smile:
When you felt all had been lost—
His hug gave you the mile!
You sat on that concrete out there
Sipping cups of lemon tea,
Steaming from that brown liquor
He emerges, can’t you just see?”
I turned back and looked upon
Places just pointed by two Line
I clearly saw in sepia tone
Sketched, our friendship shine!
Lips curved upwards, I kept gaping
At the vastness of you
Right from the stone to the signal
You beamed huge,but in a blurred hue!
awsome 1 :)
ReplyDeleteexcellent :)
bt cud not relate with current situations. would be happy if the poet helps me to understand smthng about the backdrop of this poem.
honestly,one of ur best..i dnt knw whethr u meant wht i interpreted..but the first three stanzas said it all as a metaphor..yeah those were few of the most beautiful times fr us..its been long..longer than the tracks that run..hope they remain parallel as always..beautiful composition mate :)
ReplyDeletewhy did u hav to end it???? i mean...i wanted to read more...i wont call it an abrupt end coz it s not...bt it s definitely one f those poems whch one wud like to read on n on n on....at least i wud hav...
ReplyDeletethe only fact whch is distinctly clear in d poem is who dat 2nd person,dat friend of urs, is n how much u 2 r bonded...rest all s a mystery...where s d place? where do d tram lines lie? where s d signal located? who s ds "she" out dere? bt u knw wat...i dnt feel d need to knw...ds poem can be read n felt n appreciated even by smone who dsnt knw u..dsnt knw ur friend..dsnt knw ur bond wd him..dsnt at all knw d situation...n yet can strike a chord of similarity..can arouse a sense of deja vu in his heart......and d last few lines r awesome..
i dnt understand d intricacies of poetry bt i do try to understand d feeling with whch a poem s written. n ds one showcases one f d purest feelings on earth...
sorry for posting ds long boring coment against ds wonderful poem bt wat i had actually wanted to say in so many lines had already been said by kushal....tho i ve read only a few bt ds s one f ur best compositions..undoubtedly..
thnx srijani kushal ritina fr appreciating :)
ReplyDeleteexcellent!!!!
ReplyDelete:) :) :) dis is all i can say :) :) :)
ReplyDeletei cmpltly agree wid ritina :):):)
nice. serene and peaceful
ReplyDelete"As we move, the brother in arms
ReplyDeleteSilence prevails all chaos and fuss
Beauty of our bond shows its charms
The steel wheels never ran on us, harsh"
Way to go, way to go
Amigos MDS..that's all I know!!!!