The Reminiscence!!

I looked at the tree overshadowing the balcony!! The falling leaf had grabbed my attention. It was after months that I had come to this place. The lockdown had done it's part in distancing people. But yet here.. I was.. under the same old tree.. overshadowing the balcony on which he stood and smiled at me for the first time.. After months... I had felt this feeling of normalcy.. something I had been deprived of. To see the people cheer... to see them help each other.. ask about each others' whereabouts.. children running across.. people cooking food.. all of this.. while covering their face with masks..!! For the first time.. people had learned to concentrate on the eyes.. to look into them..to read them.. The twinkling eyes and the folded wrinkles across the eyes narrated how happy everyone was after meeting each other post months of isolation.. Amongst all this.. I stood there.. looking at the balcony.. where he had smiled at me.. and it was as if nothing mattered more than the smile.. the moments where our eyes spoke... all those moments started staging in front of my eyes..one after the other.. It was all the same.. people dancing... singing.. cheering.. laughing.. smiling.. all of this.. but only this time he wasn't there!! For the world.. he had left his physical entity.. had probably become a star.. had probably be in the heaven above watching over us.. but for me he was still there!! In the giggles of the children.. in the smile of the youth.. and in the wrinkles of the elderly.. Anywhere I looked.. I saw him.. He existed.. He taught me that more than the physical being, the soul mattered.. he taught me.. the only thing that doubled when shared.. was love.. and I could feel it.. Feel his presence in the shade.. in the simmering sunlight.. in the changing of the seasons.. in the darkest dungeons of the mind to the brightest emotions ever felt!! I picked up the leaf and looked at it.. It had withered away.. wasn't green like the leaves of the tree from which it fell. A bit of yellow.. revealing it had lived it's part.. but it will have it's existence forever in this world in some form or the other.. this wasn't the end..it was just the beginning.. He had said.. death is just for the physical matter...but to remain alive in someone's heart is to live forever..!! I couldn't agree more.. I smile looking at his timeless picture on the wall smiling back at me..!!