AN UNFORGETTABLE FACE

The world of love she keeps in her eyes

Fetches the sun from the cloudy skies

Brightens dull lives with her “sunny” smiles.

Of all the world-weary souls I met,

None did I find so unreservedly munificent

Catering the world with her desi cuisines

Seldom forgets to pepper those insipid lives

By bouts of ceaseless chatters and narratives.

A  wanderer ambling the course of streets

A  romp fumbling every word sweet and bitter

Promises to unbolt new doors to solicitousness.

In the darkest of lanes she showers the brightest light.

All the seasons, summer, winter, autumn, spring

And the fall of her life, on the bumpiest of roads

Paces miles in the same old shoes and the “sunny” smile.

Now that the stroke of the departing hour draws closer

And I ponder the forenames of some unforgettable faces

In my mind I see myself rushing past the condominium

In the crowd, her countenance, so achingly familiar

An unforgettable face smiling into my eyes

Cuddled me tight, bade me goodbye

But left an indelible imprint on a level of granite…