My First Expression

By Hritik Kumar

I was wondering! wondering by the illuminated diwali lights.

When all of a sudden, a cracker triggered up my mind.

And I vision death lingering on my last bench.

Seeing the same old nook turning off the lights.

It is not that I fear this sight of time.

But its only, that I was out of time.

I saw the sun, turning helpless.

Attaining huge size to be real and too cold for its name.

I was holding him in my arms.

When our fingers last touched.

I was giving him an unwilling farewell.

When divine, he was to turn.

Too frozen limbs for the January night.

And too shrunken were his white eyes.

And I saw this expression for the very first time.

First time to be real and last time to be unbelievable.

By Hritik Kumar