One Kind Gesture At a Time...

When I look back

To take a stroll across all my life experiences

My heart often sinks 

To the deepest disappointments

Cause there is nothing I distinctly remember

That could make my heart warmer than the desert,

But it's past midnight, and deserts often turn into 

Refrigerator at this hour, I console myself!

So, I blame it all on the night.

Adjusting my pillow, as I begin to fall asleep,

A clutter of vague visions come flooding in.

Overwhelmed, I am left with one incoherent instance

Magically fitting into another...

Like

It's a cold Monday evening, 

I crash into a digitally devoid chai tape

To later realize, that I forgot my wallet...

Overhearing my banter with Chaiwala

This gentleman loans me a tea worth 10 rupees

And wins my respect for a lifetime.

Unfolding into another story

Where I stand all tired in a jam-packed bus

And bump into angry fellow passengers as the bus stops

Every now and then.

Before I declare it as the worst day ever...

A lady makes her 5 years old leave her seat and

Offers me to sit...

My Leg cramps were more painful to watch

Then to have her own.

Her babysat on her lap for another 2 hours.

Before this journey could end,

I find my memory lane teleporting

To the streets of Chennai

Where I am seen loitering on the streets 

Worried

After a fun shopping spree....just to find my lost wallet

I go from shop to shop with my laser eye glare intact

Just to spot a blue wallet with a lot of cash

and every photo ID proof possible.

Flushed, I sit in one corner, almost ready to cry

When a familiar man

Comes running to return my wallet

That I left at his shop by mistake.

For me, Humanity came back to life that day!

All these Experiences could have ended up in tragedy

But some heroes without capes

Know how to turn a sob story

To serendipity...

These stories tonight

Save my sinking heart

One kind gesture at a time...