another poem by sreyashi....

MEMORY OF LOVE........
I don't know why I thought of u again after so many days,
Its bin long since we both went different ways..
We had never really bin close since the start…
Yet for reasons I could'nt fathom then,
U had always held a special place in my heart…
And therein my feelings lay buried. As I had chosen to do…
Coz I could never muster up courage to express them to you…
Yet those emotions that I had felt for u…
Were the closest I had ever come to fallin in love…
Sumthing, I believed, never happened without,
The nod of approval from sumone above…
Yes, it probably was destiny, or god's will that brought us together,
Although I wish we had remained so forever…
I do not really have a grudge, coz whatever happened,
Or did not happen, whas perhaps meant to be..
And u may have bever realized, but the little time,
I had spent with u, made a world of difference to me…
The child in me grew up to be a girl,
And u kindled a part of my soul, that,
I myself was unfamiliar with, and set it free..
To fly beyond the horizon, into a world
Where boundless happiness waited only for me…

Now u are gone , n I don't know if I'll ever meet u again..
But u have left behind innumerable memories…
of joy..and… maybe a lil pain.
Yes, all those moments, I treasure with great care.
When I waited eagerly to catch a glimpse of u,
Early in the morning,
And the sheer joy and ecstasy of the moment
When I first talked to u…
And I remember, bein in a trance, after that, all day thru..
When a smile from u, or a word of appreciation,
Wud make me feel, as if I were in heaven,
When quite foolishly, every song or poem,
That earlier held not much meanin,
Reminded me of u, whenever I heard them..

And, of course, how do I forget that day,
Which, I knew, was the last one, I was spending with u.
I tried desparately to hold on to time,
But those minutes slipped away slowly…
And the day only left me with an image, that I cud forget never,
The final glimpse that I had caught of u,
That will be etched in my mind forever…
And I stood there alone, oblivious of the milling crowd around me,
With only a feelin of emptiness, knowin that,
It wud be the last of u, I'll ever see…

As I found myself, surrounded by ur thoughts, from all sides,
I realized that memories had a strange way of comin alive,
Try as I may, never to look behind at them,
I'll still encounter them, unexpectedly, and all of a sudden…
In those moments when I walked in thru those bylanes of memories,
In them I experienced nostalgia and solace,
And, when the journey ended, I walked back into the real world.Wiping off a tear that rolled down my face…