For You My Dear Friend

I wanted to touch the mighty sky

I stretched and stretched but hardly reached the roof

I thought I should fly like the sparrow on the tree

But I had no wings to fly me high

I thought I should float like that solitary cloud above me

But my ties held me back and my feet could not move

I gazed at the stars and asked them

Tell me what is in store tomorrow

Are there smiles, are there tears

Is there joy or is there sorrow

The stars did not answer me

I wanted to stop the time right there

But the seconds, the minutes were too slippery to catch

I thought of going back in time

To my mom, to my dad, to my brothers and my sisters

Back to my days of childhood but I could not

There was no door to take me there

I thought I will try to find God so I looked

I looked in many meccas of worship

I found idols, I found rituals

I found priests, I found traditions

But I did not find God

I walked on and came to a bush of flowers

I stopped and smelled a rose

It touched me, I gasped

I felt I was breathing, I felt I was alive

That was all that was there to life

The moment I was in

There was no tomorrow

I thought of you and in my mind

I held your hand

I brought you there

I gave you a rose and asked you to smell it

You smiled and you felt alive too

I wanted to tell you when you feel low

Go out there and bathe yourself in those scented flowers

Go sit by a lake and bend forward

And see yourself

That pretty beaming face

Those lovely lively eyes

Your name means worship

So worship you must

Worship yourself and your goodness within

When you want love

Go lie in the fields

Let the breeze kiss you and the grass caress you

They are so giving they want nothing back

Live the moment cherish the moment

Care not what will be

When you want to talk

Come to me

On a cup of tea we will laugh away the worries

and wash away the blues

Together we will walk on the paths ahead

But will always stop to smell the roses.