A new beginning and and an end...

The following verses have been written by a very good friend of mine... a very very good friend of mine....

That friend is trying to make a new beginning in life... though ironically when our friendship ends... life is strange and it will remain so... I think!!!!

You are a rose, a beautiful rose!

Gifted to me by someone loved.

I press you hard in the pages of this book.

A book which stands on a rickety bookshelf.

Amongst many others-

I read them all!

Inspiring Wisdom and Knowledge;

Reflections of Truth and Courage,

Preaching happiness and success,

Guiding through wit and calculation.

Oh! The rankness of a scholar -

Sought by one and all!

I lost you somewhere in the clutter,

Until today, when I discovered you yet again.

You were the rose, the same beautiful rose!

Gifted to me once, by someone loved.

Pressed hard in the pages of this book.

A book which stood on a rickety bookshelf.

For long, long enough to lose your color and shine.

But, you still smell the same -

Your redolence reminds me again,

Of my true identity and existence.

What wasted years,

Ah! the brevity of life.

I hold on to you tight this time,

Never ever to let you go again!