Tuesday, October 05, 2004

A sweet Poem

Really Nice poem, which I picked up from a chain letter. Yeah you guessed it, I am too materialistic to believe in the luck (or bad luck) which a chain letter is supposed to have.
Achchi lagi to yahan par dal di.

Around the corner I have a friend,
In this great city that has no end,
Yet the days go by and weeks rush on,
And before I know it, a year is gone.
And I never see my old friends face,
For life is a swift and terrible race,
He knows I like him just as well,
As in the days when I rang his bell.
And he rang mine but we were younger then,
And now we are busy, tired men.
Tired of playing a foolish game,
Tired of trying to make a name.
"Tomorrow" I say! "I will call on Jim
Just to show that I'm thinking of him."
But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes,
And distance between us grows and grows.
Around the corner, yet miles away,
"Here's a telegram sir," "Jim died today."
And that's what we get and deserve in the end.
Around the corner, a vanished friend.

1 comment:

myprivategarden said...

Touching.If I had read this in 2004,I would not have understand the magnitude of the meaning. Now after having loss much,it struck a deep chord in me.