|Poem| The sunset that lasted a little longer.
There are things
you can never get enough of,
There always have been,
in perhaps all our lives,
Moments that,
we secretly crave to hold on to,
Forever,
But it too receded like :
The tears of that mother who bids you farewell
in fear,
of not knowing when the tears,
of joy come next,
Or like the moisture of
the lips of that brother who knows when he sees you next,
He'll be showering in gifts, again,
Or of the crackling voice of that father,
feeling cold from the other end
of the phone for not watching you climb those last steps of the metro station,
So he keeps calling to check,
If the next time would be soon,
Or like the warmth you felt
At the center of your heart
after hugging that friend who secretly prays,
you surprise them again,
for revisiting
Or recreating
Those moments of silly laughter and bidding you with
A handful of promises to meet soon,
Soon?
The random faces you keep crossing
Or the random paths you keep walking,
And keep calling everything home,
How you wish,
These lasted just a moment longer,
Just a little?
And then you gaze across to meet the
Setting sun
And your forehead explodes
With brimming knowledge,
That all things must pass,
For nothing is permanent,
Not you,
Not these moments,
Or these men,
Or their laughter,
Neither the tears
With accumulated fears,
Not the natural beauty,
Not the night, Nay the day...
For only when all passes
Can the new be made way for,
So with a heavy heart and a smile on your lips
You let slip this moment
And embrace what comes next,
A tear trickles,
Finally to ingest,
All of this, and then more,
And a lot left,
To summon in between,
While the sun sets down
After secretly craving,
It could have stayed longer,
Just a little?
Longer...
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