Then - Now!

Once, I saw rainbows across the tear washed sky, their iridescent gleam slanting down on the waters below, Buds burgeoning on every branch, Flowers opening their delicate folds, and summer bees spiraling around gathering nectar for frosty days. Saw radiant smiles gleaming past Angelic babes’ innocent face, Men toiling from dawn to dusk going about their lives’ odyssey, Speeding vehicles moving down as ants, in an unbroken chain, Nature, posing from time to time in silken green, amber gold and in dazzling white Everything fleeted past As through the window of a speeding train. Neither did they linger long nor were they daubed bright in paints variegated on my mind's impressionable canvas to call them back to mind at will. I lived my life in acute haste. Colours, shades and myriad scenes passed me by as common sight But now with a heavy mist blocking out my sight and an inexorable dark covering me like a shroud, plunging me, all of a sudden, into a perpetual night where sun beams never again shall fall I realize with a jolt, how much I have missed and how much more I will miss!