Disputes break the bridge in between causing both the disputing ones fall

Hafis, if I remember it correctly,

You were the first ever one, for me

To have acquainted in the Law College life.

Hope you too remember the same.

You looked fresh and innocent then,

As for me at least, for you were 

New in Kerala, almost new,

As a young adolescent boy.

The reason was there, that you were 

Brought up, if not born too, I am not sure,

Mostly in gulf country.

So, I could see in you, then, the curiosity 

And strange look of and for novelty.

Dear Hafis,

Life and whatever in life

Is not about what we get or got.

Rather, it is about how and what 

We take, and take from, 

What we get or got.

Hence, nothing to dispute. 

Disputes break the bridges in between

Causing both the disputing ones fall

In both their claiming way of winning

Against each other.

So, trying to make your sight mine too,

Your talk mine too,

So as to be able to walk together

As neither behind nor before.

No way need to win over others. 

Winning needs my friends to be

As losers on other side, 

Which is very negative.

Rather my friends' win 

Is and should be my win.

Hence, intended only to open 

Many more doors or windows

To receive, accommodate and embrace, and 

To prove the existence of other versions 

And other sides and faces of truth. 

Dear friend, open at both ends,

Things really pass by, 

For no obstruction in between.

There the passing by

Becomes the walk and talk of life.

Ever moving and changing life.

Ever growing and flowing life.

Also dear my friend,

To be able to give and receive.

Please, remember,

The very simple thing required is

Ones’ hands to be really open.

Open only, one breathes in and out.

So, uncorking the bottle, my friend,

To unlearn, then learn.

To undo the past and do the present. 

To correct and forsake the past 

To reach and live in the present. 

So, no wrong in living the present,
Or in living in the present, 

By correcting the past. 

By changing the past to present.

Even by changing the future to present.

But, dear my friend,

We need to erect the pillars of present 

In the forgotten wilderness of the past,

And we need to spread the branches of present

In the high sky of future.

Hence, dear my friend,

Just noting what is to be noted. 

At least to make all of us aware, that 

We have, and we had, thousands of ways 

Lost or available to live and look at the things,

Or to make our life so beautiful. 

So, complaining to perfect. 

Than talking about only one way and one truth. 

A looking back. 

A looking through different angles.

Branches’ looking down to the roots, 

For its own growth. 

Roots looking up to the branches

To the result of its efforts.

To reveal the fact one happened to feel 

But not meant to deny other’s version.

As beautifully forgot to note: 

May be our age (adolescence),
When we entered Law College in 87,
Also caused certain inhibition in us. 

The very special age of adolescence.

A different kind of exhibition too. 

It was and could be different 

For each one of us. 

In adolescence, most of the children 

Get to be really perplexed, confused. 
As to where to start and touch
And as to what to do and not to do.

Most of the children 
Overcome this very psychology 

With the strength of a group behind them.

Dependingly. 

They get courage and confidence 

Only when they are in a group, depending. 

There, they enjoy and celebrate 

With all kinds of naughtiness and exhibitions. 

Certain other children are other way round. 

They tend to be intact, hence introvert too. 

For a different kind of individuality, 

Where they try to see themselves 

And the world independently, 

For wrong or right. 

They want to un-define and; then define or redefine.

They want to undo the past; then do present. 

They want to unlearn; 

Then try to learn new - the change.

Not because of external factors only. 

But because of one’s own inner factors too. 

Just because of opening of 

Thousands of windows together,

In this particular age of adolescence. 

Then, for no idea they have in and with them

As to where and how to set his sight.

Where to look at and what to see. 

May be some of us were beautifully 

Out of the world for their own, for 

Spiritual or mental reason or growth. 
Of Adolescence.

Waiting to fly like a butterfly later on.

Like, Jain rightly noted “Lost is lost”. 

Like rightly said by Jain and rightly noted by you, Hafis. 

I was not lamenting. 

Nothing personal was there. 

No my mistake or no his mistake. 

That is not, that was not 

And that should not be 

The question. 

Nobody’s mistake it is or it was. 

It happened to be like that. 

So, it happened like that. 

Happened, because it happened.  

At least for some people, 

It became monotonous and not enjoyable. 

Because our Law college lacked 

The beautiful aspects of 

A complete college or campus. 

Altogether our campus did not become 

A campus at all in total, 

With all those things required 

To make it to a total one.