SHALINI MASCARENHAS

 

Celebrating Friendship

 

Eight years of friendship to celebrate

Party evening plenty of wine,

food is fine

but nobody wants to eat.

 

Music blaring,

karaoke in store,

men gulping down the drinks,

while the women sip on wine,

cracking jokes and laughing aloud,

the men get up to sing.

 

The dancing begins,

couples get on the floor

children enjoying,

screaming and shouting,

around a little puppy

that steals the limelight.

 

It is late in the night

nearing morning,

the show must end

the hall is in a mess,

a broken chair,

scraps of food,

drinks spilled,

the host

as they raised the toast

to eight years of friendship

and welcomed new friends on their list.

 

Came to an end

with a lot of fun

bye's and wishing each other

more years of fun and friendship.

 

Were They Friends?

 

We are friends forever they said,

they met every day and chatted every day,

they went out on their outings together,

at work they sat close by

and during lunch they would eat together,

they would share all their problems

and would resolve it.

 

Then one day one of them lost her job,

she was left out,

she was lonely,

and was longing for her friends to pass by

to talk to her,

to ask about her,

but they never did,

they were too busy with their lives

she was hurt,

she missed them and the times they had spent together

where are they she thought,

how could they forget her so easily,

alas were these friends of once upon a time?

 

SHALINI MASCARENHAS

 

SHALINI MASCARENHAS: Writing comes to her naturally; she writes whatever comes from her heart and at the spur of the moment. She is a graduate in English Literature not been to any poetry class as such, but manages to read, learn and write.  She has published online about 6000 plus poems and has a book and few anthologies published. She lives in the Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and has been there for the three decades.