SHE

 

Face drenched in tears,
Eyes all red.
She was crying her heart out,
What could I have said????....

I was sitting next to her,
Futile, seeing her groaning....

Her tears were narrating a saga,
Which I wanted to know.
But, how would I have offered help,
Seeing her condition so low??....

In the crowd of millions,
Why I could just see her?
The whole world vanished for those moments,
It was only her and me, and no one other....

The world was not for her,
And she was not for the world.
Then what I was doing there,
Stopping in between, while moving forward???....

I wanted to get up and leave,
But, something from within resisted.
Her face held me so firmly,
That I simply sat back and obeyed ....

There was something,
That was attaching me and her tears.
Till the time I was figuring this out,
I found, she wasn’t near....

I searched for her,
But, got only disappointment in return.
The girl for whom I wasted my day,
Left me behind and moved on....

Days passed,
But, the search was still on.
In the hope to see her again,
And to know the reasons of her pain....

Then one fine day,
I finally saw her again.
At the same place,
And most probably with the same pain....

This time I garnered all my courage,
And went straight to her.
Not to quietly see her weep,
But, to question her, what went wrong???....

For my surprise,
This time my presence was noticed.
But, what left me in a shock,
Was what in my ears she whispered....

She answered all my questions,
Within a blink of an eye.
She said- “‘she’ was none other than,
My own ‘reflection’, living every moment by my side”............