“Pain however intense, subsides and dissipates in the environment like scattered leaves in the month of autumn”.

In the diary, left two pages blank. Pages to fill with lines from a poem, still incomplete. The poem is titled “Gehre Rang Ki Pankhudi” or dark coloured petal.It was a full moon evening. As I clumsily strolled back home after office, I noticed the Moon. A dark yellow moon.Years have passed since when a frail little boy drew pictures on a small paper. I still remember the colour of my drawing paper. The boy sitting next to me always had bright clear sheets. I wondered if my rough drawing owed much to the pale colour of the paper I had. For me paper was of much importance then. My colours always went dry and I had a brush with minimum of hair. And I drew and I painted the bad drawings.

I see the colour of the Moon and the sky that surrounds it, I wish I had that pale white paper to draw the yellow moon and the dark sky. A dark moon can make your evening bright and beautiful. Just look in the sky and keep your paper and colours ready.

© Rajesh Srivastava