It's a Small World!

The story begins like this,

There was a guy in college,

Now I don't even know where he is,

He was, once, one of my best friends.

He then had a girl friend,

Or maybe he was faking it,

It was rather a superiority complex,

He just wanted to grab attention!

He had this ongoing fear,

As many of my other friends do,

That I would pull away his girl friend from him,

I don't know what makes them think so.

Maybe because of my attitude,

The single ones think I'm flirting,

But the committed and married ones seem to understand,

It's the guys who get jealous.

Anyways, he did tell me her name,

Showed me her snaps, gave me some details,

But he never let me speak to her,

Dunno, what he told her about me.

Now that you know who I am,

And you have guessed the subject of this blog,

I would tell you more about how I met this girl,

No, she didn't just walk around the block.

I had recently started work,

When I saw her in the office,

At first, I was not sure,

"Is she...?," I thought.

She crossed me many times,

I always had the urge to talk to her,

But something kept me from taking the step,

I didn't want us to get embarrased.

Then one day, as she was passing by,

Someone called out her name,

Yes, it is her, for sure,

Should I introduce myself?

Not in front of my team, I thought,

Followed her down the staircase,

Called out her name, she stopped,

Introduced myself by my name.

At first she didn't recognise me,

She was surprised, I could see that,

When I mentioned the common friend,

"You were his roomy," she said.

Ok, so he had mentioned me to her,

Whew! That was a relief,

The conversation had started,

From then on we met for lunch daily.

The topic of the friend did come up,

But whizzed past as fast,

"There are better things to discuss",

Oh, I didn't know he was past.

So, there started a friendship,

It's a really small world,

Who knew we'd get to know each other,

I don't work there now, but we still keep in touch.

She is an interesting lady,

I like the way she speaks,

The gentle voice she's got,

Wait a second, did Jerry just squeak? Lol!

She sends a quote each day from office,

I miss them when she's on leave,

Sometimes I give whacky replies,

And then starts a big mail chain.

This one's for you, my sweet friend,

Please don't mind my remarks,

I wish to see that beautiful smile always,

May your face always glow like stars.

Moon Light

Since I came to college,

I had been noticing this girl around,

She always seemed to be troubled,

I just thought, something would be wrong.

Then, after a long time, 

One day I saw her smiling,

She had a blink in her eye,

Was enjoying the sport she was playing.

I didn't know her,

Never spoke to her,

But for some reason,

Happiness filled my heart.

I started observing her more,

Changed my route from the hostel,

I dined at the times I expected her to,

She must have noticed me, but I couldn't tell.

I came to know her department,

Checked her details on the net,

One fine day went and spoke to her,

So resolute, how and why do I get?

"What's this about?",

"Just wanna be friends."

"I'm in a hurry,

Let's meet some day else."

"How will we meet?", she asked,

I said, "I'll definitely cross you in campus."

It took some time, but I did,

It was coincidental, I didn't make it happen.

We introduced each other,

Mind you, very formally,

I don't know, can't explain why,

I couldn't speak spontaneously.

I had breakfast with her the other day,

It was just another formal talk,

I sent her a friend request,

Thought it would be cakewalk.

She didn't appreciate of it, however,

Thank God she didn't keep me in the dark,

All I got was an email,

"I am sorry, but this ain't gonna work".

Spicy Coincidence!

Winter vacations had just got over,

Had to get back to college.

Thanks to the low cost carriers,

That day I was to fly spicejet.

I checked in at the Delhi airport,

Had to pass by an hour.

Was looking for a convenient seat,

My notebook wasn't charged.

Suddenly I was taken aback,

Somebody pushed me from behind.

I turned around in surprise,

And was happy to see my friend.

Fate had it, we were 

Bound to take the same flight.

Now the journey would be enjoyable,

Boredom would definitely be set aside.

Instead of just sitting and chatting,

We decided to circle the terminal.

Large number of flights to depart,

There were lot of people.

There we saw a batchmate,

We initially were shy to speak.

Because she is from another department,

We had never had the opportunity to meet.

There was an announcement of flight delay,

Frustrated, she turned around.

I took this chance to go and speak,

Don't know where this courage I found.

"Hi, same institute, right?" I asked.

She took some time but recognised.

"You boarding the spice too?" "Yeah."

"Good! That makes it three of us."

My friend and I had decided,

To cab it to the institute once in Bangalore.

I offered her a ride with us,

She humbly denied the offer; other plan decided yore.

Further delay in flight,

We finally boarded, flew and arrived.

We took the cab, she waited,

Even at the off-peak hour, it was a pathetic drive.

Mumbai Local!

Remembering my Mumbai stay,

Churchgate to Andheri every day,

Packed local train crowd, I must say,

Thank God I was travelling the opposite way.

I had taken a monthly pass,

It enabled me to travel, first class,

Don't even know how time used to pass,

Since I always took the train that was fast.

The other day as I boarded the train,

I saw an inquisitive face looking at me.

She judged that I had taken the clue,

And came up to do an enquiry.

She asked, "Does this train go to Andheri?"

I said, "All trains go to Andheri",

She seemed doubtful on hearing my response,

So I assured, "Even I'm going to Andheri."

She boarded the train as it just started moving,

And took a seat, while I kept standing,

Finally I thought, what the hell,

Sat next to her and started chatting.

"New to Mumbai or new to trains?",

"New to trains," she said.

Great, now I have a topic to start,

Am I really blessed?

I started explaining the various routes,

The various trains that she could take,

The codes of the major stations,

The difference between the class rates.

She asked me if I had any wierd experience,

I didn't get what she was hinting at.

She got the chance to get back,

And narrated her incident offhand.

She had to once run to catch the train,

While returning from work at six,

The train was jam-packed, even first class,

She had no clue, was in a fix.

She got into the reserved section,

For the physically handicapped people,

Where a drunkard set his target,

To make her get down when next possible.

To her safety came this man,

Who calmed that mad man's anger,

She heaved a sigh of relief and sat,

Swored never again to take this danger.

That day it seemed the train moved faster,

It seemed it didn't stop even at Central, Dadar or Bandra,

I saw outside, we'd just reached Andheri,

Can't this journey last a little longer.

But we had to reach our offices,

Getting late won't have taken us anywhere.

So here we parted ways,

I moved towards the east, she went west.

"Let's hope we travel together again some time", I said,

Didn't even ask for her number,

How dumb of me to leave everything to fate,

I'm still looking for that sweet stranger.

Rain, rain, rain even more...

My friend & I were stranded in the rain, Outside a lab in college...
I asked this guy to let us in, He said it is forbidden.

Taken aback, we just stood there, Took a while, but another guy came.
Apprehensive, he wouldn't dare, He said ask the prof to do the same.

At first I thought he'd be freaky, But he turned out to be rather understanding,
Not only did he arrange our entry, But also allowed us lobby seating.

Had to pass time, so we started browsing, Thank god our notebooks were fully charged,
Because it was heavily raining, And else we would have got completely bored.

And then I saw this cute girl, As she passed by me in the lobby,
I've seen her before on colleges strolls, Come on, it's every boy's hobby.

When she went by a second time, All I did was pass her a smile.
I know she recognises me too, It's been a year, I'm not new.

But she didn't give a reaction, Just walked away as nothing had happened.
I thought, how rude, how she could, And bitched about her to my friend.

However, after a few seconds, Someone passed behind me,
She hit the chair with her hand, And sent a jolt inside me.

It was her, what was she playing, But fate had a separate plan.
My friend saw that it stopped raining, To the hostel we made a dash.

That's the end of a wonderful tale, Or is it an end, who knows.
I'm just hoping it again begins to rain, And I get trapped at that door.