A Day of Memories

When walking never needed any shoes

Such was the bed of comforting grass

A mystical flower-to bathe the valley blue

And I relied on summer rain to wash away 

Incompleteness, Impurity

When waking up was never a difficulty

Such were the soulful songs of sparrows 

A crescent moon-to tell us a story

And I relied on morning's dew to cast away

Tiredness, Travesty

When there were hardly any hint of insanity

Such were the lucid laughter of families

A fateful day-to leave behind all

And I relied on my next journey to discover 

Yearn, Youth

When what was my heart's only abode

Such a home is now plundered to dust 

A milieu lost- to some faithful undertones

And I relied on concrete's frailty to reflect

Serene, Simplicity

Let me if you may,

Find for it a sublime name

So you if I say,

Can recall it even after a decade

A Day of Memories 

(Painting- Tea Garden in Munnar by Vidyut Singhal)