Moments

Hey everyone!

It's been a while, hasn't it? NO? You didn't realise it's been a while? Didn't miss me? Not even a little? Am I being too clingy? I am, right? Forget it. Let's move on to relatively ('relatively' being the the operative word there!) less embarrassing things i.e. one of my first poems. 

So I got some good reviews (Thank you guys!) for the 'Poem + Write Up' format that I tried last time around. So following the wonderfully reactive philosophy of, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", I'll continue with the same format. 

The Poem

Moments

I remember the day we were sitting in a bus,

Talking the whole time with no one to fuss.

I remember the wind blowing in your face,

Suddenly you turned, with amazing grace.

Our eyes met, my heart skipped a beat,

With just one look, you'd swept me off my feet.

That instant I knew we were more than friends,

That is the day I wanted to end my patience.

The moment seemed perfect, everything was set,

I was nervous and on my brow was a cold sweat.

Suddenly, a scary feeling inside me, started cropping up,

And to the fear like a coward I gave up.

I delayed too much and gone was the moment,

But little did I know this was far from the end.

The Write Up

I wrote this poem a long time ago and like most of the stuff I write, this is also based on something that actually happened. So we were returning from a picnic that we had gone to. The girl mentioned in the poem and I were friends already and on our way back we were sitting next to each other and chatting the entire time. Nothing serious, just random chitchat that kids do. After a while, there was a brief pause in our conversation where she turned away and started to just look out the window. What was I doing, you ask? Well all I could manage to do for this brief period of time was stare at her. Stare at her mesmerising beauty. Stare at how wonderfully the wind caressed her hair. Stare at how she closed her eyes ever so slightly when the wind blew in a little too hard. And it was in these brief moments that I realized how much I wanted to keep staring at her for the rest of my life. But I have always been good at not giving in to my impulses. And although every sinew in my body told me to tell her how I felt, I didn't. I controlled my impulse and I didn't tell her, partly because of how scared I was if she didn't feel the same way about me and partly because of how scared I was that I had such strong feelings for someone.

What I am trying to say is that our life may be defined by the choices we make in moments like these. So it's really important that we don't give in to our fear and insecurities when we are faced with such choices. Choose to be brave. Always.

Well luckily for me, later on, I did a get a second chance with the girl. And I did do something (sort of) right second time around. But it made me realise that we won't always have a second chance so it's important to not cave in to fear and just go 'all in'. And that's my 'pravachan' for the day! 


Would love to hear from you guys in the comments! And  as usual if any of you 'Closet Poets' out there want your poems to be posted here, mail them to me at pratik.gunner253@gmail.com.