Regret

(Changi Beach, Singapore. Clicked by my brother)

Old friend,

Your regret walks with me

On days when I am alone.

Most days I pretend

To not care at all

Most days I live

Like I could bear it all

But on days

When company is sparse

And Time - an enemy

I miss your presence

Your smile

Your laugh

I miss the ‘me’

When I was with you

And the way

You made me feel.

Soon I hit

An abysmal low

Sinking deep

Feeling hollow

Old friend,

Your regret still lives with me

Reminding me of what I have lost.

The Cherry Blossom

I ran pass you in my childhood
I stood a while and caught my breath too
I walked slowly holding my mother’s hand
I raced with my sister up to the house
I waited a long while for someone to come back
I left someone waiting for me for far too long
I carried my past and dreams of my future
I returned defeated and lost…

You saw the procession that carried the dear departed
You were a witness to the lost and how!
I watched the night sky standing in front of you
I was wishing upon a star that was born
You knew when I lost again
My home was just another house in the making
I packed my world and left for another
Now you see me standing here again
Still lost and still devoid of a million hopes

Year after year you blossom and fall
Year after year you have survived
I am willing to learn the lessons now
The wisdom you wanted me to know
Of how it’s a journey and it has to go on
Shed few tears and bear few smiles

Give me some of your strength
Lend me some of your patience
Let me hold onto a piece of earth
and the whole wide sky
To know that I do make a difference
To those few who would stop and look
and find happiness in my blossoms
And to those lives I will be a witness to
Like you have been to mine…

Someday someone like me will come to me too
Like the way I have come to you
Thank me with all his heart and
Feel blessed to have me in his life

Dear Cherry Blossom,
It’s reassuring to realize you will watch over
the house that now builds a new home
I thank you for being there and for being you
Even though I’ve changed in so many ways!

On The Edge...

I was standing on the edge looking down below...
Thinking about life and all that was long gone...
Neither future laid ahead nor past was letting go...
Cold winter breeze made me feel more alone...

I have always believed in it, but life is strange...
One moment it fills your heart with hope...
The next moment hope is thrown out of range...
This fluid nature I was finding hard to cope...

When love came visiting one of those rare days...
I forgot all about me and loved only thee...
It could have been Heaven in so many ways...
But the stay was short and it ceased to be...

I thought a while and got ready to take the fall...
But I was saved when I heard my friend's call...