A Slice of Life

I chanced upon A forlorn moon On my way back home. It was full and bright, Lighting up the twilight sky But morose, for reason unknown. As my car meandered Onto the winding road It kept me company, in silence.  It held my gaze In an effort to express That it craved for some solace. Life had been a tad unkind With burdens that wearied the mind. Could these worries dim tomorrow? A crushed-up heart From a star far apart And now, every moment, spent in sorrow. It had no choice As life had to go on For many needed moonshine in times of gloom. So come every night, With all its might It tried, and really tried, to shine through. It did not ask hence, Anything of me Favours, requests or a job to be done. Simply, it stayed up there And followed me through the turns Letting me know, that I wasn't alone. 

Unused cassettes in cupboards old Second hand books with stories untold Now forgotten, but once lifted your soul Pass them all to me.  Out of fashion clothes lost in corners of closet Middle seats in airplanes that you so hate Bread sides which often you eliminate Give them all to me.  The horrid summer heat you despise Brings for me orange mangoes and bright skies A wilted rose which in a vase dies Pressed in my notebook, lives. The ones who don't find a home Share a room with my bohemian soul Together, we make our halves full And life goes on in glee.  Artwork by: Tanmayee Chakraborty

 I imagined, That the skies today were grey The mountains stone cold My heart no longer young Hiding sorrows, never to be told.  But then, a stranger came by And made me a cup of tea. My worries rose from the steaming cup Leaving me, to be free.  Artwork by: Tanmayee Chakraborty