A Life to Remember

Here I first ran
To fall, Then
To pick myself up
To learn to walk
And pedal a distance.

It started here
Before I could know what it were
A kid, a boy, a seething man
Stammering, Biting nails
Fighting to feel the make of a Life.

It began with a gung-ho
A gumption to bond
When watches in lectures
Would wish and yearn
For the breaks to Rag.

When Fresh, the mirage gone
The want better than what got
Now a bold voice
And a cocksure brawn
Gauche or glib, it all began.

An everyday host- the Canteen
Serving celebrations in sambhar-style
Captured the seamless mix
Of bubbling wishes and dreams
And rambunctious Happenings.

With a raucous critique
Of the taught and the Teacher
Came brash celebrations of the weekend brio
The bombast resonating
With Aarohi and Axis from an Audi gallery.

Today, the silent roads just go straight
Nests abandoned, birds have flown
The trees now look but green
Waiting dispossessed without life
For the new, to make one and Rejoice.