Saturday, September 21, 2013

A September Evening

A gorgeous feeling of happiness is racing up the veins as I flip through some old pictures. Looking at my small, geeky face, hair tied back at the nape of the neck, a few strands falling casually on the temple, toothy smile, flashing broken front teeth and striking a random pose. How innocently pretty I look even though I am in a pair of blue bell bottom jeans buttoned up at high waist.

The weather outside makes the moment even more beckoning. Streets are sublimely soaked up in the last rain this monsoon. Black clouds growling as they float past those huge trees across the road, which are smoothly performing a not so coordinated waltz. I see darkness crawling up stealthily in my room as I sit with a bunch of photo albums on my lap and flip through them, caressing a subtle, faint smile. My mind is laden with a bundle of anecdotes and incidents...moments of pristine joy, flashing every second. They oscillate rhythmically creating a fine rhapsody which I could play on forever and never get tired of.

And then, the faint curve turns into a wide smile as this photograph comes up, reveling a fragment of me which had vanished eons ago.

It is a picture of my old, grey colored study table on which I had beautifully doodled so many things.
:)



Losing some shreds
On the graveled path
Of being a woman, a lady
I hear her whisper,
lingering loosely
along the lines of faded yesterday.

I watch her impression..
Her fragmented laughter
grow deep in my skin,
Gradually rebuilding
cryptic patterns
of abandoned love,
slyly calling out my name
in a familiar voice..
Of the novice little girl
I once was.
And then effortlessly
bridging the gap
between two tangents,
my past..
and her present.
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10 comments:

  1. oh my! these old innocent photos and weather. bliss! :) A long time back, my bag got stolen and I lost some of the most precious childhood pictures. :(

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  2. Why did u not put that pic, Vinati:)Would have made this post even more memorable!

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  3. Nostalgia is always a nice thing :) It gives a heaviness you would enjoy!

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    1. Actually! That heaviness is because we crave so much to relive the past and that craving is because the past was sooo good.

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  4. It's good to turn back the pages of the past once in a while ... after all, the past made us what we are today :-)

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  5. Goodness I love your writing style. The more of your writing I read, the more I love it :)

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