It's A Promise, I Promise... Poem by VaishakSeetharam Dattani

Throughout these years, i sat and thought,
Words and phrases in tears, my bestie, this is all what i got.
Wine and champagne, i got stoned and wrote this- last night,
For my heart to speak up, how much had i missed you right.
Only “U” came up, i Promise, first the light, then you in white.

That genius said, one persons lose won’t change this world,
I bet, if had he read my write before this say, added he would,
A thousand ones who takes that place cannot replace it i swear.
Sent you in this school, so called as life, a year before me dear,
You learned it so fast, i am still, that’s why you are there and i stay still.

Your Mom could not wait, your Dad as always hurried,
They made a reason to reach to you, so they were burried.
This so called son was forgotten, so was this journey
The lesson of life, the chapter of love, all i learnt the tough way,
For me to still stay, a ten thousand reasons beholds this way.

That Pen, that diary, that gem, that watch, that kite, that knot,
Those dreams, those petals, those pebbles, those cross...
That heart shaped baloon you blew and gave, i treasure that,
As It has some air of yours, but you are still sleeping in that grave,
You no more breathe, at times i swear i forget that you don’t exist

It’s a promise, i promise, the angel, the soul,
What all you wrote and what all you dreamt,
What all you wanted and everything you needed,
One day, i will make it happen, whatever they say.
I swear, its a promise I promise!

I am still earning, more than that to this world i am paying,
After all these debts, a day shall come, when i am finally saving.
Its a promise i promise, i shall buy a land next to your grave and wait-
And wait for my turn, when this life tells me sleep next to your mate.
I swear, its a promise I promise!

You stay there up above in that heaven,
I wish i do good things when i am in this prison.
So i come there where you are and not where i was meant to be,
This wish of mitzvah, i keep postponing day after day,
Doing good things always for me had to be from tomorrow.

Its a promise, i promise I shall write good things, if not great,
Its a promise, i promise i shall do good things in life, if not so great.
Like this poem that i wished i could publish today, thats happening tomorrow,
Its a promise, that i promise, Its a promise that i promise,
I shall be doing good things starting tomorrow.


27-September-2015