Short lived... ephemeral...maybe just circumstantial....
Compared to the likes of the flower and the sun; the moon and the stars...
something clearly not meant to be...nothing substantial....
What is it but all air and all that would soon be water...
All that would remain more apart than together...
What kind of togetherness is this?
Not the one that the lovers gives similes of...
Nor the one friends look upto as an exemplar...
It just is something that keeps the sun and the flower in separation...
Just an unwanted complication... A necessary evil... Oh! what a relation!
Maybe they just bear each other because of their situation...
What a pity! To not have a fate which promised eternal togetherness and smiles...
What a shame! To always just be commonplace amongst duos on which are based so many promised and poems...
But...
Just for an instant... let us stand in their shoes...
Just for a while... let us think differently from the assembly line thought processes...
Just for a moment... let us see the banal and search for the beauty...
Just for a minute...
One realizes...
The charm of this togetherness defies all logics and realisms...
Somehow it seems that they really yearn for this 'togetherness'...
Just for this togetherness that the water rises up again and again into the arms of the air...
Just for this togetherness that the restless air waits patiently...
Maybe when they meet...
They talk about the places they have been...
The things they saw...
How they missed each other...
How they wish they could always be together...
Maybe the refreshing greenery... that taught us what peace is...
Maybe the color-abundant rainbows... that brightens our lives...
Maybe the smell of the wet earth... that enlivens us...
Maybe the happiness that the rains bring nothing but the reflection of the satisfaction of them being together
Maybe it is what bring all the eternities together... and maybe its the basis of all that is today....
Maybe... Just... Maybe....
Maybe the onslaught of floods taught us and them both that their togetherness is defined by not always being together...
Maybe this togetherness is something more than what our banal minds can think of or ever comprehend...
Maybe its something else in itself....
Maybe its how it is the best...
Maybe... Just... Maybe...
(Picture Courtsey: Madhukar Shukla sir)
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