30 January 2008

flush

What if, we forget the baggage.
Forget the floods.
Forget the stairs.
Forget the silent accusations. And the loud ones.
Forget the open window that used to let the rain in.
Forget the half-complaints. And the insecurities.
Forget the loud, echoing laughter, every 21 seconds.
Forget the lamp with the face on it.
Forget the trembling hands that ruined that shot.
Forget the millions of shared cigarettes.
Forget being pressurised.
Forget the mobile ring tones.
Forget the first conversation.
Forget micro-emotions.
Forget the bad hair days. Or the 35 minute morning regime that follows.
Forget the lyrics.
Forget the nicknames.
Forget the cooking.
Forget the anklets.
Forget the still, half-read Marquez.
Forget the carefully maintained soft board.
Forget the tear stained afternoon after Cinema Paradiso.
Forget the first photograph in Goa.
Forget the shouting eyes.
Forget what people said.
Forget the badly made ginger tea.
Forget the muted whispers over a long distance call.
Forget Bill Watterson.
Forget the t-shirt.
Forget the lies. Forget the truth.
Forget contentment.
Forget the marathon with bare feet.
Forget the unanswered mails.
Forget the jokes. Or the faces that came with it.
Forget existentialism.
Forget the red and black raincoat.
Forget the love. Forget the blind hate.
Forget the first time. Forget the last time.

What if we forget everything. And meet for a cup of coffee.

25 comments:

Anonymous said...

I would like that so much. If only.

Wyntey said...

excellent.who would say no to a question so well asked!!

your blogs never disappoint me.

\m/

Gauri Gharpure said...

Forget, if only we knew how... My list also includes unanswered mails, blind hate, shouting eyes, people and past... Impossible, or just about... but very elevating to see pain can happen in many same ways to many more people! :)

phish said...

educatedunemployed - yes. if only.

stardust - everyone has their share of memories that stay behind. like bad files that refuse to get deleted. only difference, i don't want them to be erased.

stardust - er..thank you again :)

gauri - and it is elevating to see so many people can feel pain and still lead a normal, swear words laced life :) thank you for dropping in again.

Wyntey said...

oops ... i promise i ll never delete a comment again. :D

kimananda said...

That's a lot to forget, you know. But a meeting and a cup of coffee...it sounds worth it to me.

B said...

Just the right blend of poignant and humourous is what your blog is about...just like the perfect cup of coffee. Never have I wanted a cup of coffee more after Bob Dylan rasped about it. Kudos. Many coffee beans to flavour your life. And may you always come up with some excellent repartee in every conceivable situation.

Anonymous said...

i'd call that a restart.

Miss Iyer said...

I'M GAME!!! :D :D :D

But don't ever ask me to forget Bill Watterson! 'Cos if I did, then I'll automatically "Forget the jokes. and the faces that come with it."
Wouldn't it suck to have coffee with someone that doesn't have a funny bone? ;)

Goldbug said...

i was wondering why you'd want to forget all that and then u got me with teh last line. that does sound like a good enough reason to forget all the rest.
imight plagiarize it myself as a difficult to turn down request.

phish said...

stardust - see what you have done? such a lovely thing to say it was as well :)

kimananda - it is, isn't it? thats the whole point. somewhere we cant forget, the good and the bad. yet if we did, we might just end up different. sigh.

bg - thank you for the encouragement. i hope i can live up to all of it. as far as repartees as concerned, it always strikes me as a departee. but i am working on it.

gaizabonts - re-start? i don't know. really. if we forget its just a start n'est-ce pas?

miss iyer - precisely my point. unfortunately i have 206 funny bones. and half of them are still immature.

d h roark - ah. you got it. good. go ahead and plagiarize if it gets you a little more than coffee. its not about the coffee. and yet it is.

Nisha said...

i cud relate to almost all lines and think of a memory.
i think that says it :)

Devil Mood said...

YES! :)
Come and pick me up, k? ;)



(I loved the "forget the micro-emotions"!)

Anonymous said...

I may sound clichéd but pain and pleasure are two sides of the same coin, you can’t leave one to experience another. As for restart I don’t believe in that term. I feel There is only a ‘start’ to any thing and everything.

Loved every line you wrote, can see the hope through each of your lines. I too wish things turn real bright soon for you as I too agree a lot can happen over a coffee :-)

Anonymous said...

bhule ghechi! coffee khete kokhon jabo!!!

Anonymous said...

What art, your site, your self. But what is art? What you say it is. Like Devil Mood says Excellent. I agree.

phish said...

nisha punjabi - this has been a revelation, really. i thought thes memories were very personal. and now almost everyone who has stumbled upon this has found something to hold on to. that is the nature of memories, i guess. and when people are in love, they do the same things. in their unique little way. they also move on.

devilmood - if i only could, i surely would :) i loved the micro-emotions too. notice the past tense. hah.

life unscripted - hope, after so many mistakes is called wishful thinking. but i still do. illiterate as i am.

anonymous - tomaakey khujey paabo kothai? ekta naam to aachey.

missalister - thank you. humbled i sit.

CheshireCat said...

Stumbled onto the blog.
Just wanted to say I loved the way it's written.
If only we could wipe ourselves clean...

phish said...

the soliloquist - stumbling, u have realized in our parallel world is full of very nice surprises. not so much out there. which is why we live here. i am glad you liked this space. do drop in, whenever.

void said...

You eloquent bastard.

I envy.

Mansi Trivedi said...

Lets.
:)

phish said...

void - lol. i will take it as a compliment. yes?

mansi - ah. i am glad you do. have you done your share of forgetting then?

Devotica said...

and suddenly
coffee seems like THE thing to do

Devotica said...

suddenly
coffee equals deep breathing

Anonymous said...

Came a walking from EU's, liked this so very much so dropped by to say that will hopefully be dropping in more often.