Claimer: This poem indeed reflects a trace of true incidents in the lives of real and living personalities who are mentioned in prose by my friend vikash in his blog in the post "majnu puran"!
Ref:
http://vikashkablog.blogspot.com/2007/04/blog-post_24.htmlDisclaimer: This ain't autobiographical nor any close!!
There is this girl I want to talk about -
A face I etched in my dreams and eyes.
The one name I remember and shout out -
She is my past and future - my life's prize!
No falling stars and no lightning skies -
I met her as any guy meets any other girl.
She was one of many an oyster that lies -
Who was to tell me that she was even a pearl?
She wasn't really pretty - nor any clever...
She was a kid who had to grow up fast.
"Just a kid!", I thought and friendship was over.
Little did I know that it would change my past.
She was as cute as innocence could be.
She was a world of happiness and love.
She wanted to learn a lot from me.
She was my fairychild sent from above!
I taught her all things - both dignity and dirt.
Whenever she cried, I taught her to be brave.
"Never let a person close enough to hurt" -
This ultimate gift of truth of life I gave.
What was duty became my identity.
I built all my world around her.
I don't know when she said she loves me.
I knew I was made for her and to serve her.
She was suddenly the most beautiful lady.
She was my pride and my reason to live.
I swore my life to see her smile and be happy.
She was the only thing I knew and could ever love.
I prayed to every God to keep us together forever.
She too promised to be with me for all time to come.
She felt magic when I spoke and warmth when I held her.
I saw my life in her smiles and my breath at her feet.
We used to walk all nights long - talking dreams.
I wanted to live to make each of hers true.
We were the only two who existed in the world we built.
We shared what was not possible between any other.
I was her servant, her friend and a father.
She used to inspire, be my lover and a mother.
She used to talk to cheer me when I was at my lowest.
I used to wake to watch her go to sleep and kiss her feet.
It was our garden of heaven
We never wanted to get out of it.
It was was our world of magic -
We knew it would never break.
It is the same girl I want to talk about now.
A person who despises every moment she spent with me.
A person who no longer remembers she loved me.
A person who no longer wishes to know I love her.
Strange that she learnt my lessons too well.
She never let me close enough to hurt her.
She never let me close enough to be loved by her either.
Strange that I never learnt my own lessons at all!!
Today I wander wondering what was my mistake?
Did I love her too much.. or trust her too much?
Whatever it may be, her point of view has changed -
Because she trusts and loves someone else.
She says she was not happy with me nor felt magical.
She says I was depressing and never knew her dreams.
She says she moved on - she forgot me and doesn't care.
She says I was just a prop to help her grow and love someone else.
Today, I walk along those paths where we talked dreams
Wondering which one of them I did not encourage or add to.
Today, I walk along those paths she tread.
Finding my own identity in the dust of her footprints.
She walked away from me carrying my world I built for her.
Now, I am left with our memories when she told the lies of love.
So, I am trying to build a world of my own with what I have.
It is not my mistake that my world is full of her memories.
Wishing her happiness wherever she goes, I watch her leave.
Wishing she would at least let me be her servant, I rot here.
Wishing I would wake up and find my fairychild with me, I sleep.
I am shouting, "I miss you!", wishing she would at least look back at me.