Once again I discovered us,
Pointing at the same pictures,
Humming the same tunes,
Whether we met after ages,
Even though we parted real soon.

Growing up in the shadow of the same tree,
Two little bushes, you and me,
Though distances sowed us in different plains,
At different times, climes & terrins.

Playing in the fields and swinging on the slides,
I’d never have thought, we would synchronize,
Cuz we had these miles and such little time.
You seemed unreachable in those moments sublime.

And today I smile watching us,
Galloping like two horses drawing the same carriage,
With unbeaten unison and unmatched pace.
Against time, age, and distance, we won the race.

Like droplets of rain from the same cloud,
We cried,
Couldn’t hurt each other,
However much we tried.
Just like the curious breeze scanned an open book,
And grasped it through and through.
Didn’t take me any effort,
To read my brother too.

Growing under the same shadow,
In our reins ran evergreen sap,
Whose similarities men couldn’t measure,
Whose purity they couldn’t map.

If I could predict,
and wish predicitions were true.
I’d ask my creator to let me grow up every life,
Under the shadow of the same tree in which you grew up too.

And with the same faith in which hymns are chanted,
I’d want you to take my love for granted.
It is your right and yours to keep,
Right from when I opened my eyes,
Till the day I sleep.

And I’ll see us again tomorrow,
Pointing at the same pictures,
Humming the same tunes,
Whether we met after ages,
Even though we might part very soon.

We can’t help it, can’t you see,
We happened to grow up in the shadow of the same tree.

Devika Tyagi