Hello Stranger

Over the years, I have grown up seeing various faces of life, from the ones that I expected to the ones I didn’t, from the ones I have known to the ones unknown and from the ones that made me smile to the ones that made me cry. After seeing so much and being in and out of the word called “Life”, I am all confused who “She” is. I would like to use the word “She” for life because that is a start of another mystic romance she has in store for me. The use of word “She” implies that life is taken as the manifestation of the female form and, she is a stranger for me. I have met her a million times, known her name all the while but she deprives me of the words I know I have heard a million time. So here goes one for her:

Strange lands
Stranger words
The winds that I know
The seasons so low
Deep with in me
Under my skin
I hear the echoing words
And voice that’s mine
The face that I have seen
With a smile so new
She walks up to me
And I whispered "Hello Stranger"

The place she claims,
And the times she speaks
She had been ruling my senses
And she walks with me
She lives in my thought
I know not his whereabouts
Echoing words subside
And the face is stiff
The tears have dried
And smile so fake
I felt her lament in my ears
That she is not a stranger


Over the seasons
I have been with her
The times when I cried
And the solitary bird's flight
It is more of me added to
An unknown desire
The pegs deep in my heart
And my painful shackled limbs
She set me free
And gave me wings
Now every time I meet her
I greet her saying "Hello Stranger"

- Piyush Singh

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