It's been a long long time!
This post is coming after nearly 3 years. Trudging along with our humdrum lives, it's difficult to find motivation; a cup of coffee that wakes the drowsy eye from it's hibernation, a kick that jolts the mind from inertia. During such times, it gives you all the more pleasure to read and appreciate a few beautiful lines that come straight from the writer's heart!
Monali (too modest and self-effacing to publish her beautiful thoughts) scribbled the below lines that brought my otherwise lazy mind out of inactivity.
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Will you come with me?
We’ll go far away from here, the world so real
somewhere where 'my real' is an acceptable truth
where 'my real' can breathe, not suffocate in denial
will you come with me?
To a distant land where there is no suffocation
no fear of accepting who I am
no trepidation from looking at the mirror and seeing myself as I actually am
to finally see my face without a mask.
To accept its existence which I have so fervently denied till this day
to share my true happiness
Will you come with me?
To see my true sorrows
We can go far far away, be lost and find ourselves again
Will you come with me?
where I meet my childhood again?
where my needs be simple, and not flatted up by what I am expected to expect;
where raw mangoes and sour teeth were honest pleasures;
where I was free to cry over my dead pet;
where getting my fingers tangled in my mother's hair was a dear mischief
enemies were for a few minutes, and sharing a lunch box dissolved all hostilities forever
Will you come with me??
to be my light as i begin this treasure hunt
Will you be there to hold me back, compel me forward, when practicality pulls me back?
- Monali
Reprise
Let’s breathe in the petrichor, and dance in the rain,
Splash in the puddles and make paper-boats again
Will you be with me where the nature and man are two best friends?
And, where the god dwells in every heart himself
Let’s get lost in the bright sunny mornings with breeze all around
That morph into the starlit sky, mighty and unbound
Come before it gets dark outside and when it’s too late to take sides
Let’s run before reality stops by, and we lose the voice to cry
Come, we will go hand in hand, to this place unmanned
Don’t be afraid now, it’s really not that far
Just close your eyes and there you are!
