{"id":16,"date":"2012-05-09T02:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T02:28:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-15T09:15:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T09:15:16","slug":"winding-up-one-summers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amaragarwala.com\/blog\/winding-up-one-summers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Winding up one summer&#8217;s day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>It&#8217;s late afternoon&#8230;&nbsp;discernibly&nbsp;hot, lazy and a trifle breezy. Can hear the cacophony of honking vehicles minus the&nbsp;urgency&nbsp;of a normal weekday traffic, could be the unscheduled holiday declared right in the middle of the week&#8230; being the birth anniversary of the great legend. Feel a trifle dull, besides its sultry outside and I can see pedestrians, meandering listlessly, perhaps winding homewards. &nbsp;Some stand huddled around the small ramshackle tea-kiosk just across, a hot cuppa on a hot day perhaps brings fortified relief. &nbsp;The clock shows its well past four&#8230;dusk is more than an hour away, can spy a few birds gliding aimlessly across the rusty-blue skies, a few lines emerge across the realms of my mind:<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>Waiting for Dusk..<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>As dusk drawn neigh,<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>I heave a sigh,<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>A day in my life is done,<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>When the skies turn dark,<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>The stars will mark,<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>My prayer&#8217;s the God&#8217;s did shun,<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>Da<\/i><\/b><\/span><b style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><i>rkness whispers night long,<\/i><\/b><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>To shadows in a muted throng,<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>Dreams which were lost and won.<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>Dawn will colour another day,<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>Much ado to make hay,&nbsp;<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>And life will watch the fun.<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>I urge myself to leave office.. perhaps the quietude of home beckons. The noisy street below and the drone of construction work on the adjoining plot suddenly seems unbearable. Shall come back tomorrow, I solace myself, to wage another battle with life. Even though I can boast of no victories today, for it was a grim day of survival &#8211; gritty perhaps but then I live to fight another day. &nbsp;At the end what really counts, for me, for anyone is &#8211; Survival. &nbsp;And that the God&#8217;s have kindly bestowed.<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;**************************<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>Dancing<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"small\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Winding up one summer's day...\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s late afternoon&#8230;&nbsp;discernibly&nbsp;hot, lazy and a trifle breezy. 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