New beginnings!

These new, tender leaves ignite sense of hope on a completely dry tree! 

Have you ever seen a dry, barren tree? You look at it with glint of sadness and suddenly in some random branch you notice fragile, new leaves showing audacity of hope. This picture was taken at Hanging gardens, Mumbai. It somehow reminds me of my poem "Fragile yearnings" written few months back;

"Fragile yearnings"

As the edge of the day meets

Softly falling evening again,

Someone somewhere

Is holding on to threadbare hope

Haunted by loneliness,

Wanting to complete 

The story left unfinished,

Longing for that one chance

To say words that remained unsaid,

Dying to hold her,

Look into her deep eyes,

Feel scent of her glowing skin

Aching to have those

Long, soulful conversations,

Make her laugh endlessly

And see her blush!

As the edge of the day meets

Softly falling evening again,

Someone somewhere

Is seething with pain

Remembering his last piercing gaze

His eyes brimming with tears,

Unable to express deluge of feelings 

Frozen in that heavy, thundering silence

And she, stunned by that gaze

That changed everything between them forever,

Witnessing silently 

Both of them die a little at that very moment! 

© "Fragile yearnings" Simi Mehta, 18/09/2015