Only If we never grew up

The cab starts at the doorway

So our hearts, to sink

And we all stand there

Mom flaunting the buoyancy

And me pretending

Also, that ice cream man far off

Who served us with happiness

Long enough to join the moment

Today, a part of me feels too old

To catch one cone for two of us.

I look away and I see

He looks back at mom,

From the moving car

Like the kid from his van

On first day of kindergarten

And he just smiles at me,

Smiles so intense

Smiles so wide

Smiles so sad

Smiles that often turn into tears.

Mom loses herself in,

With the disappearing car.

Only I standstill there

It feels like

The streets we strolled in

The parks we played in

The corners we laughed in

The dwelling we grew up in

Everything,

Everything I stand in amidst of

Gazes at me

And tells me

Things will never be the same

And Times were never coming back.

(For Bhai : 

This is the mere two minutes moment of us getting apart when you left home for job.

I feel wonderful thinking that you're finally a grown self stand man, accompanied by the sadness of us not being together.

But that's what gives life a meaning.

Times change, Places change and So do people.

But I believe, the bond we share is eternal, beyond the distances and afar the time)