TALKING TO  MY BROTHER.........
( I LOST RECENTLY)

As
I felt a gentle tap
on my shoulders...
waking me from my sleep
I looked up...

There he was

smiling
between the stars...

Hi ! he said
I rubbed my sleepy eyes
It could’nt be real!
"WHAT'S UP? "
I asked
"I am " , he smiled again

"But you can't be real
I must be dreaming" I say
"Whats wrong , Mukul Bhaiya,
Here I am speaking to you
and you say it is not real
It is a Dream
I was with you
is a thing of past
a figment of your memory
and YOU CALL IT REAL ? "

"But you are dead,
We've just come back from your cremation"
I mumble
" oh! so you have cremated me
and where am I now
where I'll be in future?" he asked
I was stumped
for an answer
"ask your heart, ", he suggested



I looked into my heart
there he was
smiling ....as always
the naughty gleam in his eyes
" You live in my heart
and you'll live there for ever"
I tell him
"If I live in your heart and
shall continue to live forever
till you breathe your last
can I ever be dead? "
He asks me.

And
I realised
even in his death
he had won once more
in my debates with him

~Mukul~