"To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin, that makes calamity of so long life."

- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; 1885




Sunday, August 12, 2012

An Evening of Conjectures.

The best cure for a writer's block - a note pad, a pen and Lodhi Gradens. :)

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What is it that brings them here,
This city garden, lover's lair?
Is it the golden greenness of the sunshine,
The sway of the trees in pre-shower squall?

Is it the trailing paved pathways
Where they stride with hurried steps,
To heat their blood
And cool their temperament.

Is it the shrill screeching of chipmunks,
Reprimanding you for trespassing
Their earth and skies, like you did them,
On your roads and rooftops.

Is it the slight opportunities
Of reservedly declaring your love
Lying next to each other on cool, cushy, sod
Fingers carelessly intertwined?

Or maybe the convenience of resting your head
Against his chest, seated on a tawdry green bench
Listening to nature’s teeming noises
Against the rhythmic backdrop of consistent heartbeat?


Or did you, like me,
Come here to clear your head
Of the nitpicks and cluck-clacks,
The humdrum and why-what-wheres?

Did you too wish
To leave behind, bricks and mortar
That remind you of the morbidity
Of skyscraper ambitions?

Did you, like me, weighed down by the sheer
Multitude of choices, each claiming a happy-ending
Drift here; for once letting your feet
Make their way instinctively, without your head leading.

Did you, like me, crave to be present among
Wild berries fallen in a merry rot,
A gifted feast to the odd, fidgety squirrel,
Reminding you of a once familiar smell.

That of your childhood backyard –
Of damp earth and berriness and decay and tree sap –
Educating you that life has pace
And that there is no return to those days of easy volition and simple joys.


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