An Ode To My Friend…

Some Lives Just Like That..
When do you get the signal that you are entering adulthood?
When you start shouldering responsibilities?
When your sleeping schedule gets distorted?
Or when you start losing your friends?
Those friends who you thought are going to be
forever in your life.
Promises which were made in the
leisure period of life are now obsolete.
All those dreams we weaved together –
dreams to visit exotic places, to spend weekends together,
to go for rides and late night walks are now far-fetched.
Never in those nights at hostel we might have thought of
breaking those promises.
But my dear friend, it has always been like this. Isn’t it?
Our plans and dreams locked up in the heavy chest inside that
castle we built on air.
Life took us somewhere else.
Some place which never crossed our imaginations.
And we met people.
Their stories being told, our stories being told.
Eventually, they too leave making us a part of their stories.
Our stories reach many souls.
No wonder someone said- ‘We all are connected’.
But in the evening of my life, I will always wish
to go back in the time hoping to actualize those promises.
Being aware that’s unfeasible,
I will for the millionth time cherish
the time we spend together
Laughing at our idiocies,
Creating a beautiful tapestry of bucket-lists,
We both young and naive-excited to meet the future.
But my dear friend, once we reach the dusk of our stories,
Let us watch that sunset together..
If our eyes are not too weary and heart not too wretched.