Eagle Eyes

Standing at attention,
His eyes scanning the area
Like an eagle looking for a prey,
His gaze slowly
Rests on the two lovers,
Stealing soft kisses…

“About my age”
The soldier thinks,
Drifting in his mind to his own lover,
To the last time he stole a kiss…

Since then
A lot has happened,
His father died,
Mother got sick,
He left for Vanni,
She got married…

Standing at attention
scanning the area again
his eagle like eyes
water’s with tears.

The Picture

27 years ago,
She was only a piece
of a bigger picture.
Year by year,
The pieces added on,
The picture got completed

27 years
The picture complete
for one brief moment.

Then the wind blew,
Taking with it
The pieces
over the mountains
across the seas,
over unknown lands…
to far far away places.

The picture is no more,
It remains
an incomplete piece of
a bigger picture
again.

His silence

I miss his voice,
Miss his random replies,
His one word answers,
His monosyllable responses,
His random noises,
his nods,
his gazes,
his shrugs
his eye brow raises,

most of all,
I miss his silence.