The Birthday Song {Dedicated to: Karan Arora}

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When I sit down & remember the time

I recall it like the back of my mind

It is vivid – crystal – It was 2009

Making friends – setting trends – taking pictures – scanning girls

Pulling legs – Sharing meals – staring walls

Silly fights - Staying over on Friday nights –

Gurdwara visits way past mid-night – crazy bike rides

Talking nonsense – Laughing as Sakshi daily cries

Eating burgers & sandwiches at all-night joints

On weekends - Walking around Knags - packing bags –

Rushing to ISBT for 2 days trips to wherever it takes

Forming the Chochu gang – it was truly a big bang

Hate was strangled - buried in the parklands

On your 21^st – everybody did the paper dance

There was love – There was spontaneous romance

Everybody was Harry Potter with magic wands

We learnt to fly without wings

We baked memories & forged eternal links

If we could – we would freeze-frame them moments

And take them with us – all the way - to hell

And then came the separation – bitterness & pain

It was like a fuckin sticky migraine

Like the drought after the big fat rain

Sometimes we don’t get to choose – what & who we lose

Sometimes we get the thorns – sometimes we get the rose

But no regrets - This is called life

People always telling you what you can – what you can’t

But they don’t know you

You’re the only one who knows you

There’s only – you can – there’s nothing – you can’t

Dreams is just another name of Life

If there are no dreams – there is no life

It is better to fail – than never try at all

Coz once – twice – thrice – you’ll fall

I know one day you’ll be the ‘Best of All’

If you chose not to believe in me

If you chose not to believe in God

If you chose not to believe in anyone

It is alright

But always chose to believe in you

It is already 2012 – everybody has moved on

But time doesn’t stop – it sings on

Here I sign off with your birthday song

To my best friend – Hang on & Sing along

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