Atreyi

I am going to post  a maudlin poem. Please bear with this whimsical one.
Atreyi is a childhood friend I miss.

Atreyi

I remembered your heart shaped  face
A sudden sunny morn
It was just as if sweet yesterday
Had quietly been reborn.

Dark ringlets dangling on your forehead
Your outstanding voice rendered
a Christmas carol of my  choice
Joy to the world and so it was
Serene and beautiful our childhood's pause.

Winter winged by and a fresh
Summer flew in
School days got over and goodbye to teens.
We were separated from each other forever
As our parents settled farther and farther.

Seven years of childhood can be
Eternity in heaven
Our hearts retained a tenor of complacence
Wherever we went whatever we did
We would meet often, be thick as thieves.

Gallant efforts, nights spent at each other's place
My friend who can forget your serious almond gaze
Slowly the tectonics were drifting us apart
As mind slid on mental planes sealing secret places of our hearts

The day you married I kept staring my wonder
You were such a quintessential crybaby mama's darling
Independent sinuous bride in red regalia
Touring the hall greeting your guests with elan

I have met you yes, only once since then
I remember both those dates, eleven and four years to this day.
And you're like me a mommy of two boys
I recall how I married my doll to yours
We were going to be best friends forever
But we becameTime's passive  faceless dolls.

Every memory has you tucked in to a green leaf that's yet to open
The dark lush green remains unviewed,  for inside it
I am too.

Every high thought every brave deed every tear of
Joy and sorrow
You were my living diary of yesterday
Lost from all of my tomorrows.

If I meet you again dear friend
I shall be your Time capsule living in
Our past
If you remember not a jot of us
You will then, be forever and finally lost.

Flourish in ease my beloved friend,
May peace happiness and success
Attend
May your distant glorious path wind long
Through secret heart shaped leaves that fan our song
And dappled sunshine cast such paisley dreams
That forevermore this friend may seem
A lost little girl living in your heart
And my dear Atreyi,
At least that ways
we may never part.

© Amrita Valan 2015