Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Well...I started writing this for a friend who wanted it for his friend...but i ended up writing something for my friends..only a few of my special friends....

MOVING ON

Day dreaming has become a usual habit.
I venture day in & out like a lonely rabbit.
Into the woods & outta of the bushes.
Dreaming to walk in those mesmerising lushes.

I always felt the need for your reassurance.
But expecting you to care for you was annoyance.
For you I was always there.
& expected you to be there to take care.

You ridiculed me, & my feelings.
But for you, I only rained blessings.
I told you to be aware,
Asked you to take care.

“Remember me, cause I will, I swear.”
For you this seemed too much a burden to bear.
I’ll see you when I come back.
Couldn’t imagine you bitching behind my back.

“To be or not to be”, Shakespeare said.
But you saying “bye” left me dead.
Philosophy and random talks took their toll on me.
I took several measures to vent what you couldn’t see.

Turned to cold meat, numbed my feelings.
Looked for help, but people had their own dealings.
A few understood, a few did not.
Made lots of friends, literally a huge lot.

“Why do you victimise yourself?
Throw her out, like used paper off the shelf.”
Usual questions & usual answers.
Losing all control over my mental prowess.

Limping & stumbling like that familiar rabbit.
Walking around that hole was now a habit.
“What goes around comes back around.”
No one could sense the depth in my sound.
“Get out, find a new home.
This isn’t any good with her gone.”
My fellow rabbits had moved on.
Made me believe that all of them were con.

A few stayed, giving me a piece of their mind.
These were the melodramatic kind.
My emotionally susceptible friends.
Who were essentially a mean to all my ends.

All but one was sweetest of the lot.
She cared for me the most, even though we fought.
“We’re hot rabbits”, she always told me.
Whenever we were sad of things that we ever couldn’t be.

Her heart was somewhere, somewhere too far.
She tried reaching it, in her rusty old car.
Engine failure, flat tyres and an empty fuel tank.
These were usual, & that somewhere was blank.

I was her repairman, to help her get back.
We were almost there, when somewhere lost track.
The map faded away, having nothing to say.
And my best rabbit friend did nothing but pray.

To go to that mesmerising lush, where she ever wanted to be.
She too joined my footsteps, to go where they wouldn’t let us be.
It was difficult to explain her, I tried my best.
She was very willing to put her love to the test.

And so we started our journey, on our rusty car.
Only to get high on a roadside bar.
We smiled to each other when sunken.
And decided to bear each others every burden.

Even today, we’re still on our road.
Swearing to each other that we’ll never ever break the friendship code.
Looking for happiness in small little things.
Cause even we’re rabbits, if not human beings.

Many a hardships we fared.
Many a loosers we scared.
Many a joys we cried.
Many a sorrows we survived.

We shared our troubles, like we did carrots.
Always wanting to fly like beautiful green parrots.
We were always there to support each other.
Unlike some, who didn’t even bother.

The journey still goes on.
We stupid rabbits have to move on.
Our rickety old car, covered with scars.
It is all the result of the harmful journey so far.

We cried to each other and we wept.
Under a lifeless shade, we slept.
In our dreams, revived our jolly time.
Our jokes, we were all the witty kind.

Waking up to realise our uneventful fate.
The nostalgia now had a habit to irritate.
Trials and errors did make us understand.
And one fateful morning, she held my hand.

I looked at her & said, “Thank you.
“I could never have made it without you.”
And she simply said,
“Friends never leave each other, Friends never depart.
They just sit somewhere silently, deep in each others heart,
Saying, I’m still here…”

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

bhaisahab!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
shit!,,,shit!!.....shit!!!!
this is super duper gr8!!
m serious laddu...ure sooo fckin talented......gr8 gr8 gr8 work!!!!!
<3 sooooooooooo much!!!
so glad we're frndz!!!!!!!!!1

rooster egg said...

life as we know it will never be the same,
change is inevitable, as are love and pain.
somewhere isn't all that far,
why don't you try driving here in your (rusty old)car.
judgment may have been passed far too quickly,
i pray myxomatosis doesn't get you sickly.

Rishabh Ladha said...

I got it rooster..
I'l probably now stick to my own chores..
and will not bother to venture on foreign shores..
however, in my(rusty old) car,
doors for friends will always be ajar...