PAULOV

I am at a friend's house,talking,when i get a call from my mother askin me to come back home soon-she has a surprise for me. I am taken aback. My birthday is still two days away and she already bought me something!
I get back home as soon as i possibly could. And as i enter my room,i hear them chirping. Tiny little bright birds! One of them is aqua blue and the other white.
I am overjoyed! They are the happiest birds ever. They made me smile.
I decide to name the male(the blue one) Paulov and the female Asana.
Every morning,when we enter the room they are in,they chirp.. As if to greet us. They were always so full of life!
Many birds came and left after that but i got attatched to Paulov. I watched him grow fat,i loved to hear him chirp. Almost like as if he wanted to tell me he's happy,probably.

Three years later(4 days back)- mother woke me up and asked me to check on Paulov. He was on the floor,a very unusual sight because he seemed allright the night before. I pick his stiff body up and i couldn't get myself to think what went wrong. He was just a little over three years. I had no choice. He got a decent burial and thus he lies in the backyard. The silence that persists now instead of the chirping is killing. To hell with all those people who said you always created an intolerable racket. We love u,Paulov and we will always miss ur happy chirping.

FAR AWAY

Standing alone in the dark,lonely road
I look around for signs of you
Even your footstep in the snow-covered pathway would do..
Seeing nothing that is of proof that you are near,
I do not lose hope and the wait seemed to go on forever.
Not untill I was totally covered in snow
Did someone back in the warmth of my party room know
That something was missing-and that was me.

I even patiently sat near the phone
Hoping you would call atleast and tell people to leave me alone..
Evening turned to night and with each passing minute,
The sorrow in my heart grew.
There I stood,in front of my birthday cake
Ready to blow my candles but wondering why did you fake?
I thought you would not miss this day for anything
And your absence must mean something-
Maybe you had forgotten,anyway..

I lay awake in bed all night
Trying to stop my tears,which I couldn't fight
Finally,I heard the most pleasant sound!
I picked up the phone on the second round.
Little did I know that it is not the call I expected
For,your tearful mother told me you were no more-
A fact I cudn't digest..

While I was awaiting your arrival the whole day,
HE had made you take a wrong way.
The one turn of the wheel of your car
Took you away from all of us...