My Eternal Longing: Menaha Bhandari
The Delhiwallah Poetry Collective brings the Young Poets feature that publishes young poets including school and college students.
My Eternal Longing
Menaha Bhandari
Beyond the boundaries
Yondering solo into the unknown
I delved deep into the green,
Wild, broken, lush, savage
The turf of green canopies
Hid me, I searched for peace.
Behind the woods
Into the ravines
Under the clear sky.
Yondering solo into the unknown
The emerald tide, faraway coast,
A shipwrecked, bouncing dolphins
I dived deep into the blue
A lost land
Treasures of past, the long lost pearl
Divine, mystical, angelic
Surfing deep into the lost world
I couldn’t reconcile.
Yondering into my sweet bed
Obvious, familiar sounds, brick walls
The aroma of honey syrup
Mingling with my mother’s hand kissed pancakes
The hoarse sound of the grinder breaking sugar granules
To bake a raspberry cake
The tender touch of the white linen bed sheet with my cranky pillow
The carpet with rose and marigolds
The squish- squash of the rusted doors
The known sound of the leaking taps
The wooden bookshelf, the brown flower vase
The rose and lilies at the backyard
Birds chirping the same old song
Under the sun-kissed sky, my terrace
Could hold me forever
As my home was where I belonged to
Love, care, yearning
All lived with me here, inside those four walls beneath the roof.
I stopped my search
I stay back in my home… eternally.
Menaha Bhandari is an avid reader and a sports enthusiast. She juggles between writing poetry, animation, and digital art and is eager to publish a Manhwa digital copy in the near future.