If…

If

I was a little younger

If

I had not erred a bit in youth

If

I had not understood philosophy

Then

Maybe then

I would have listened to my heart,

And unlike Eliot

I would have

“Squeezed the universe into a ball

And rolled it towards some overwhelming question.”

And unlike Eliot,

I do not ask myself the question

“Do I dare?”

“Do I dare?”

No doubt crosses my mind

And मेरी तन्हाई se बातें nahi karta

a la Amitabh

“तुम होतीं तो कैसा होता”