Let us go then, you and I,
To the chamber where we were born and bred
Festooned now with cobwebs,
The crib but a wreck,
That once buoyed us through languid streams,
Has now sunken to Time’s deepest depths-
Tempest tossed by Time’s unforgiving winds.



Let us go then, you and I,
To every threshold,
Where we stumbled, tripped and fell,
But rose again, standing tall and firm,
To every threshold- that we crossed together,
With friends and foes,
Winning and losing,
Loving and hating,
Living and dying.



Let us go then, you and I,
Down the vista of bygone years,
And relive times of triumphs and fears,
Smiles and tears,
Loss and gain,
Summer and rain,
Joy and pain.



Let us go then, you and I,
Rise from the darkened spirals of the past,
To those of the ‘morrow,
Let us embark then, on a journey onward,
Into the vast and endless seas,
Carrying in our pockets fragments of that dear crib,
And in our cargo,
Memories of those years gone by.





-Sambhavi Sudhakar