Just Like That - Another Night, Another Day

It happened again. One more time we planned & failed the plan. Sounds funny; doesn't it. But I cried, again. Boys are not supposed to, right? Whatever! Once more, we planned an outting to spend time together, that planned got crushed by someone else but we planned something else. I waited the whole night to go there and spend a few invaluable hours walking & talking. She said that she would call late last night and let me know where to see her in the morning so that we could go out on our little sojourn. But predictably enough, she didn't call me. Just like she didn't bother to tell me on Friday what time she would be leaving the office. I was still there, after my office on a stupid sunday when no soul would call because everyone (but some of us, unfortunate souls) is celebrating Christmas. 7.00 AM, yes that was the time. Sipping on a cup of tea, I am watching my cellphone, waiting for her to reply to the SMS I sent earlier on my way.

"Good Morning Sleepy Head, Remember something".

I finally left at 8 AM after 16 hours of wait for the baby of a plan. I didn't get a reply until 10.30 am.

"We are not going out. Take a nice sleep."

Thank You, R...

Everybody Hurts, Sometimes

Sometimes, in one's life, when everything seems like coming back on track, it just has to happen so suddenly, throwing everything off the good path. It has to suddenly start rolling downhill. I sure know how to fix things, but what about those which are governed by others. The factors that are under control of whom I love most in my life. The people I trust most & blindly believe them for whatever they are to me. Consequently, I am left nursing heartache for weeks, months & years. Just when I thought I had found someone working on the same frequency as mine, it is turning ugly with no communication at all to clarify what's going on? I wish to tell a lot of tales, see a lot of place & do a lot of things together with that person, but does that matter to her? I wonder...

Everyody Hurts
By R.E.M.

When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone,
When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on
Don't let yourself go, 'cause everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes

Sometimes everything is wrong. Now it's time to sing along
When your day is night alone, (hold on, hold on)
If you feel like letting go, (hold on)
When you think you've had too much of this life, well hang on

'Cause everybody hurts. Take comfort in your friends
Everybody hurts. Don't throw your hand. Oh, no. Don't throw your hand
If you feel like you're alone, no, no, no, you are not alone

If you're on your own in this life, the days and nights are long,
When you think you've had too much of this life to hang on

Well, everybody hurts sometimes,
Everybody cries. And everybody hurts sometimes
And everybody hurts sometimes. So, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Everybody hurts. You are not alone

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Ae Fond Kiss, and then We Sever

It' been a long time since i have found any little time for myself. Mostly been busy with my office work after my visit to hospital and having been a little lost in my forest of thoughts, I today read that there is a book sale in Oxford. Had to say that I desperately need to read something good & it has been a long time since I've purchased a poem collection. So finally I decided to pay homage to one of my favorite poets, Robert Burns. Tomorrow, when I get up and leave to visit the bookstore, the first one in my wishlist would be a Robert Burns book. Since my days in Kolkata when I developed a taste in Poetry, I've been longing to make a nice poetry collection. CD Wrights, William Butler Yeats, Robert Burns are some of those writers who fuel my imagination, give me ideas & subjects and amuse me to no ends. There is unbridled joy, pang of remorse & regret, death, visualization of scenaries, separation & what not. Just to remind me of what is there in store for me, here is a poem from Robert Burns.


Ae Fond Kiss, and then We Sever

by Robert Burns
(1759-1796)

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Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;
Ae fareweel, and then for ever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,
Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.

Who shall say that Fortune grieves him
While the star of hope she leaves him?
Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,
Dark despair around benights me.

I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy;
Naething could resist my Nancy;
But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love for ever.

Had we never loved sae kindly,
Had we never loved sae blindly,
Never met -or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken-hearted.

Fare thee weel, thou first and fairest!
Fare thee weel, thou best and dearest!
Thine be ilka joy and treasure,
Peace, enjoyment, love, and pleasure!

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;
Ae fareweel, alas, for ever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,
Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.

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