I Waited...

I just wanted you to know that I waited...

I walked on to where we were once, as children, where the pearls of rain trapped in a cobweb was once beautiful to us; where the flowers tickled us as we walked beside them; where our footsteps echoed in the undergrowth... The reminisce of our little tree house was still there. You would always hide your favorite things in there, like pieces of metal and stones, like your little toe ring... I searched but didn't find anything but a silver spoon you had taken from my house... I always knew you had it, but you fought with me saying you didn't...

I went over to where you had your first fall. I still remember how you had cried over your hurt little finger. You wouldn't let me see it. You just cried...  The trees seemed to echo your sadness, the leaves whispered in unison to the wind, the day had suddenly seemed hot, flowers drooping as you wept...

I took you back home that day, as you clung to my back like my favorite school bag. You plucked flowers all along, occasionally bringing them close to my nose coz you found my sneezing to your amusement... We lay against the grass, looking up at the bright skies. And I promised you that someday I would come at night and take you to the terrace to see the stars...

I remember how we stood by the well at your house and threw stones into it, assuming it to be a wishing well and stones as coins. I remember how your mom chased us all around the house and how you got spanked and I cried for it...

I remember how you came home to hug me before you left; to somewhere below these hills and over the seas as dad explained to me that day. Years have passed and I don't know where you are. I only have a reminisce of your face and the smile you would give me with your half broken baby teeth.

I just wanted you to know that I waited... I waited every night on the terrace to show you the stars, I waited to grow bigger so that we didn't need a ladder to get up on the tree house. I waited so we would sit by the paddy fields and play. I waited for you to come home like you said you would...

I just wanted you to know that I'm still waiting...