While you are there somewhere

While you are there somewhere and I wait here

World sees another day of hope and despair

Thought of the summer that came and went

The first day of school and my total reluctance

Those teachers who thought I was a queer

While you believed I am just bored

Yes I have always been aloof and strange

Yet every day your hopes made me a simple man

While you are there somewhere and I wait here

World sees another day of hope and despair

The library of thousand books we built together

Has never let me feel alone again

While friends betrayed every now and then

You kept saying- just give, don’t demand

In all those books, I always found you in the end

Though in time there will be neither you nor I

Within the books our world shall remain

While you are there somewhere and I wait here

World sees another day of hope and despair

One day you said to me- time is the trick

And many things in this world to believe in

But let hate and violence not be one of them

We will meet for time shall come a circle again

Unconditional love, purity of man

Have to tell you then I didn’t fail

Lived by your lessons, shall do it again

While you are there somewhere and I wait here

World sees another day of hope and despair

(Painting- Woman with a Parasol : Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet, 1875)