Those Moments

By Sakshat Rao

Do you know of those Moments?

Moments you’ve surely come across

When life seems prime,

You’re having a good time

And the clock has come to a pause.

When you enter a different dimension

Where your life finally feels livable.

Void of stress and despair,

It comes to a point where

Wanting anything else is unforgivable.

Have you danced through those Moments

In a seaside bar late in the night?

With a lager in your hand

To music you don’t understand

But which feels in place and all is just right.

When your boozy eyes look at your friends

While they embarrass themselves on the floor.

Puppeted by the beer,

Your drunken legs go near

Them to add to the shame some more.

Or do you smile through those Moments

When tucked in your blanket comfortably?

Around your favorite cousins

Eating delicious muffins

While enjoying a game of Monopoly.

When you crack jokes and laugh at each other,

Reminiscing about all the funny family tales -

Whether tumbling down a roof

Or being hit by a horse’s hoof,

You can’t help but enjoy the humorous details.

Or do your eyes widen in those Moments

When you are positioning yourself for a catch?

With your feet sunk in sand,

Shading your eyes with a hand,

To win your team the beach cricket match.

And you jump like a kangaroo towards the ball

When you realize it might get out of reach.

When you open an eye,

You’re being thrown in the sky

By your friends celebrating on the beach.

Or maybe you sweat through those Moments

Whispering prayers to your God for hope.

You are paranoid in fear

For the time is coming near

To watch the announcer open the envelope.

Your hours and sweat for this competition,

Every little effort boils down to this.

But when your name is said,

Those anxious tears of dread

Turn into watery pearls of unmatched bliss.

Do you now know of those Moments?

Such moments of different emotions and kinds.

Adding memorable substance

To our humanly existence

Are these memories engraved in our minds.

Although my life is made up of countless seconds,

Only a few seconds my memory can remind.

However, when put together,

These few seconds are better

Than the rest of my life’s seconds combined.

By Sakshat Rao