Where gone those days

When we would be imbibing the moonlight

Playing by the sunshine

Feeling warmth of those crackling flames

By the fireside                    

On cold winter nights

Singing carols on Christmas Eve

Believing almost in everything…

I remember, I remember…

Nostalgia is painful at times

Though the memories I cherish are fond

I remember, I remember

My then days at school

When rain clouds would accumulate in the sky scape

And it would be a rainy day

I remember my then pals at school

The bond of friendship so securely established

Alas ! Now so suddenly ruptured

By the tides of destiny

Life is like a mighty ocean

With waves surging and then receding

Memoirs are like those crests and troughs

Of the countless waves

Sailing past this ocean

We carry with us these memoirs

Yes, nostalgia this is…

The waves of thought  keep on rolling

In this ocean of life

And what if all this suddenly stops ?

Life would come to a standstill

We would perish simply

Into the void ness of death

And what happens then to these memoirs ?

I know not

Yet I believe in life and living

I believe in keeping alive my reminiscences

The memories that they are

Coz day by day I find my way

Cherishing those memoirs

This is reminiscence, my friend …