Nostalgia

 Sight of moss on old walls,

Smell of rain on foliage,

Small rivulets making strange networks on the roads

People with umbrellas, where ever you look

 

Cooking smells of your favorite curry and rice,

The sound of a steam engine whistling in the distance,

Your native tongue spoken everywhere

Old friends and relatives, milling to meet you !

 

New buildings now, where you saw old houses earlier

Strange noises, No more familiar smells,

Aeroplanes have taken away the thrills of steam engines,

Friends and relatives have all moved to foreign countries

 

My native is as strange as the new place I am in

Time has changed everything forever,

Changed for the good or for the bad, I know not

I know I would have loved to see things as they used to be !

~Mahesh Laxman~

More Poems By Mahesh

Kavitanjali.com

 

© All Rights Reserved
Do not copy