This one's dedicated to three very special girls. I thank them for teaching me two very essential things to know about life. One, that there's nothing more richer and more pleasant than life. And two, that whatever may be the situation today, life has one very nice thing about itself, it goes on. Cheers to the CG triology.
But The Moon Is Still There
Walking by the woods one day,
I saw a little girl play
I knew not who you were
But I knew I needed to stay
Watching you there, I felt I needed to know more
I knew you saw me too
but neither made a move
I took the first step, a calm greeting was all I could
That day, forgotten in the pages of the story
I know we still cherish, and revere the memory
what if, I wouldn’t have stopped
what is, you hadn’t noticed me
what if, after I greeted you, you’d have replied lame
as though I were just another shepherd, who happened to pass your way.
But you replied, and so it began
a story of two souls divine
what began as strangers in a world of bane
slowly became, each other’s greatest strength.
People say, what a small world we have
but I’d rather have it small
than to have missed knowing you
‘coz I fear to imagine where I would have been today
had it not been for you.
I remember the time
when you saw black days in life
and somehow, you thought of me in the time of peril
I know not what I did, but perhaps I comforted you
It was the first time you said, that you trust me
it meant more to me than anything before that ever
because one may like or love or idolize a person
but it takes a lot of courage to trust another being
and I was determined to live up to it
And it was the very first time,
that you asked me for something…
to take care of you.
I remember how, you wished me one day
feeling glad, that I was born
thankful to have me in your life
hopeful, that I feel in my heart, as time passes on
how much I mean to you
you said it, from the bottom of your heart
may my good times multiply
till they’re flying of the chart!
One night I called you, when I was mournful
I didn’t tell you what my enigma was
but you only knew that I was sad
that, was enough for you to know, and you needed no more
you came to foster my happiness
that’s when you said, ‘remember,
no matter what fate brings for you
you wont let yourself down
because someone cares for you a lot
and will always be there for you.’
That was the first time ever
someone had said that to me
and I knew it was the first time in my life
someone had meant that to me.
Slowly between those late night chats
those little smiles and well-done pats
between funny things and things difficult
I realised our lives, were to be sewn as one
we knew it both and we knew it well
we knew it when we talked
we knew, it between the silences
we knew it when a sudden smile would cross our lips
on the utterance of the other’s name
we knew it when we prayed, for the other in sickness and in health
when we would know, that the other is not well
without even seeing the other’s face
we knew it when we would just know, when the other was about to call
we knew it between those endless talks,
which seemed to pass in moments
we knew when we’d work hard for entire weeks
just to reward ourselves with a talk with the other
when God would intervene, to make our ends meet
and I knew, that it was you, when you said, ‘I’m there for you.’
Even today, I carry a bit of you in my heart
though we had parted our ways
but I know that memories always stay
I hold on to them, ‘coz even when everything changes
memories do not
I choose, not to regret the loss I made
but to cherish the memories I had with you
it used to be enough for us to know that we share the same moon every night
even though we were miles apart
I do hope, of you forgetting me
but I know you can’t, just like I can’t either
and I wish, I hadn’t told you that I’ll be always there with you
because now, you have trouble in letting me go
and I know, that one day, my special friend will return
because even though we live in a world where nothing lasts forever
but whenever I see the sky
the moon is still there.
- Vishal Gupta
February 4th, 2011
