Back down the memory lane,
The camera fits perfectly between two waving hands.
Never have bothered to glance back to those mechanised rhythmic wave;
might the seek was for the mesmerising lane ahead
or bragging those melodramatic hugs for the crowd to aww for.
Yes! the first bye wasn’t like the regular frame,
for the eyes both ways were stuck amidst the crowd,
fighting the hazy and watery glance, the waving hands didn’t stop till the eyes open for the next trance.
With every bye, the deserted land morphed into Alladin’s terrain,
and those waving hands and glued eyes became the morbid sleeping beauty of the frame.
Over the years, the Alladin’s terrain has changed,
and changed are those country side lane,
what’s still persistent, are those waving hands, only now it is covered with the wrinkly membrane.
Again the gruelling journey began,
though the height is reduced, it is still adamant on their shaking pose.
Only the eyes which looked forward are struggling it’s way back to peep for the last glance.
Journey kept going, but the vision has changed.
The vision that the hands were still be waving and the gaze following the path,
has made all the lifeless terrain, my Alladin’s reign!