Kash ek baar....

Anami to Vatsalya

Kash ek baar...

Kash ek baar tum laut aatey

Toh apne dil ki har ek baat tumhey batatey

Ghanton baith kar yoon hi baatein kartey

Kuch tum kehtey aur kuch hum batatey

Kash ek baar tum laut aatey

Saath mein kabhi pakdam-pakdaai kheltey, toh kabhi satoliya kheltey

Aur jab Maa bulaney aati, toh chupke se kahin chhup jaatey

Kash ek baar tum laut aatey

Kabhi ped par chadtey, toh kabhi titliyaan pakadtey

Baadlon sang daud lagate, toh kabhi baarish mein naav bahatey

Kash ek baar tum laut aatey

Ice-cream ke liye jhagadtey, toh kabhi chocolate ke liye ladtey

Samjhauta hone par, ek doosre ke haathon se khatey

Kash ek baar tum laut aatey

Har raakhi par tumko, sabse badi raakhi baandtey

Sankranti par patang udatey, aur Deewali saath manatey

Kash ek baar tum laut aatey

Kash ek baar tum laut aatey

Mera ye khaalipan bhar jaatey

Bin kahey suney hi chaley gaye thay

Ek alvidaa toh keh jaatey

Kash ek baar tum laut aatey

😳 I know this was Anami's wistful thoughts but for me this was a journey straight back to childhood!!

Days of innocence, masti fights lots of memories of childhood. Thank you dear for this beautiful piece.
The sibling bond is something that's special and unique. Twins or not the bond is the same. Childhood is all about making memories, making up stories where we are grown ups forgetting that in once we reach adulthood one wants to turn back the clock to good old days!!

Like Anami I too wish there's a button to rewind right back to carefree childhood. Unfortunately life doesn't offer us that privilege,only thing we can hope to do is make memories, hold onto them and make new ones as we grow up.While Anami missed out on bonding with her twin she made memories with laddoo 😳 but there's always going to be a part of her wishing, seeking for that chance to be with Vatsalya.

Writers deserve all the appreciation for visualising such a loving relationship portraying it so subtly but enough to pull at out heartstrings.

Originally posted by: Arshi67

Reading this evokes memories of my own childhood. Days spent running wild with my brother. Innocent days when the biggest issue was deciding what mischief to get up to next. And how best to thwart the next instalment of culture and learning heading our way. Creating mayhem and then devising ingenious (in our minds!) ways of spinning the truth. Not that our elders didn't see through them, never stopped us trying though.

There is so much regret and grief hidden in the "kash". Howsoever much we may rail at fate, plead with fate, we never do get that "ek baar".

The lamentation over something that never was, can be as real and potent as losing something that was.

Poignantly written, M <3

So true..heartrenching emotions portraying pain of not getting something which could have been so memorable..😭

Oh wow ! That was brilliantly quoted to perfection @MIMOSA !
The yearning and desperate urge in those words to live one of those ; if not all those memories with a person whom she regrets not recognizing, not having - but finally knowing. All that is left behind of him - words and poems - a souvenir and an unforgettable night of shared emotions !
Heart-rending verses indeed.
I have grown up to fighting siblings all around - to an extreme ; such that I myself am relieved to an extent not to have a sibling - to love him with all my life , only to turn against each other with time - for pointless materialistic and superficial issues.

But here I see Anami and Vatsalya ; and even to some extent the underlying feelings of Narottam and ofc @Arshi67 - that like you say - kash ek baar mujhe mauka milta ki koyi aisa ek khooon ka rishta ho jo mujh jaise ban, hamein samjh sake, mujhe sataye , mujhe rulaye - lekin kabhi chod ke na jaye !

Thank you for this masterpiece !

The epitaphs penned down by you have very vividly evoked a deep sense of sweet nostalgia, the whirlwind of juvenescence memories came gushing back to me, as I reminisce the effervescent and exuberant recollections of yesteryears with a blithe disregard for the rules of the world.

M

Thank you for your poignant post. I could sense Anami's piteous cry to her twin of her loneliness and his loss. 😔