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| Friends-Now and Forever |
He wasn't my brother, he wasn't my best friend and he wasn't even my brother in law. He was my best friends husband. We shared a relation which didn't have a clear terminology. We just shared a person who meant the world to him and whom I have known for more than 2/3rd of my living years. We just shared a common bond that kept us together for 15 years. We shared our best friend!
At his remembrance/funeral ceremony, I saw the whole of Ludhiana town come out. Not a single eye was dry as Amit was remembered. Just 2 days shy of his 36th birthday and we were paying a tribute to his departed soul. Even in his framed pictured self, he was the most handsome man in the crowd. People lined up to offer flowers and bow down to pay their last respects to him. Old and young, men and women, hundreds of them came out.
As I sat in the third row behind Sumedha, my best friend trying to share her grief I saw the serpentine queue of people wanting to offer flowers to his picture. I watched as the oldest of them took a long time to walk, bow, fold their hands, murmur something and turn back to take a rare empty spot in the huge hall. Somehow it seemed like the oldest people in the hall were taking the longest time to pay their respects. Somehow it seemed like that they were murmuring something to the 'Lord' wondering of what upholds them next. Somehow it seemed like they were quizzical about whose time comes next? To me it looked like a dilemma of sorts where the trend of life was reversed. I was left wondering about who decides on who goes when? Who or what decides whose right is it to become the star that their kids follow for the rest of their lives? Whose right is it anyways to live or die?
An open tribute to Amit-
With you we laughed a
lot and cried a little lesser,
Travelled the world a
little more, in your company life was a pleasure.
It was with you that
we downed those dozen pegs,
Partied the nights
away and shook a few legs.
You were the reason
that evenings together turned into dawns,
You with all your
charisma and that never seen before brawn.
From the time we
first met to the unsaid goodbyes,
You touched our lives
so well but tore it apart after taking it high.
For a decade of
happiness and being our friend,
we owe so much to you
that it's difficult to think beyond the bend .
If there is a life
after death, then come and lets be together, Amit,
Because nothing is
the same anymore since you decided to call it The End.
If You are watching
over us from the clouds far away,
Then come back soon,
my friend, lets spend just another day.
We let you slip away
so you could be our angel for life,
a life that now seems
so empty, a life without much stride.
We cry for our loss
and tuck you in our hearts,
always on our minds,
a memory never to part.
We are a thousand
miles away, in different rooms of God,
You are the sunlight
in the rain and We are the clouds so dark.
We are thinking of
you today and the days before that too,
these memories are
for keeping now and are all that we have too.
From the time you
walked in as yourself to now as a picture in a frame,
we wake up to this
numb silence and often say your name.
We smiled when life
made you happy and ached as things changed to pain,
Now you have left us
alone and its tough to stay sane.
The moment you went
away, our heart was split into two,
While one is wet with
your memories, a part died with you.
In life we loved you
dearly and in death we do the same,
From the moment you
touched us to the time he called your name.
May you find
everlasting peace, being together with the HIM,
Heaven must be so beautiful
now, ever since you went in.
Life may go on
without you, but it will never be the same,
As our most treasured
memory You will always remain.
You are our star who
will shine down from above,
Today, tomorrow and
always with all our love.
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