When I Was Fourteen

I wrote this last summer during my trip to India. Compliments/bricks/comments are appreciated.


Many years ago when I was fourteen
I fell in love with a sweet seventeen
And yes, I knew she'd be the one
The light of my life that I'd never seen

The way our love was, seems just like a tale
Where the waves, they soar, while lovers sail
On the ship of dreams when the night is young
Where the night bird sings while the moon is pale

Then I went away and we drifted apart
Guess I knew it all right from the start
Still I love her oh yes, I do
Lord, she'll always stay in my heart

This is her song; it's all I can give
Until the very day this heart will live

Back in the days oh I didn’t know
These songs I write, they won’t ever show
How she controlled every beat of my heart
Now that she's gone, guess I’ll never know

Here I sit alone when she's far away
She's found a new love, new sun in her day
But how I long just to see her again
To say those things that I couldn't say

So this is her song, it's all I can do
I hope she remembers I've always been true

Now it seems like an age when I was fourteen
When I saw a face like I'd never seen
The story will live, it won’t ever die
How I fell in love with a sweet seventeen.

Gautam Dhar
30 May 2005
Rohtak, India

 

good man ......

Now it seems like an age when I was fourteen
When I saw a face like I'd never seen
The story will live, it won’t ever die
How I fell in love with a sweet seventeen.

maza aa gaya.........first love they say u can never forget..haha

 

This is too good. i jus loved it ... i mean really touching n sweet feeling ... nu he laakhi thi kay ki sach mein pyaar ho gayo tho thaare ko . but repus r for sure.

jus reminds of ...... when i was sixteen i fallen in love with a gurl as sweetest can be... anyways but if u were not a john denevers die hard fan, i wud suggest this for the "i'll be there for u" frm bon jovi.

:beer:

 

abee what a coincidence maine bhi billkull yahi (Bachelor Boy...) hi soocha tha

 

Thank you sachoo and madhuresh. Appreciate your comments. I wouldn't like to disclose the reason behind the poem. Let's respect the privacy.
I'm glad you liked it.
Gautam

 

oh yes yaar.. i do respect ... phir bhi kabhi mood hoga to bata dena .sorry yaar.. jus kidding.

@madhuresh, bhai hamare khayalaat miltey he hain..aap yun he khafa ho.

 

Mujhse mat pooch mere dil ki kahaani hamdam
Isme kuchh pardaa-nasheeno ke bhi naam aate hain..

 

wah guru wah....

yaar naam to is dil mein he dafan ho gaye hain ... ab yaan toh sirf jee rahe hain yaan pee rahe hain ..

 

Mr Dhar....r u from Kashmir?

Liked ur poem though.

 

I hear you, sachoo! no doubt. But I don't drink. I'm already high on life.
Walk alone: I am from Kashmir, originally. You're right.

 

Me too......BHAIYAA!!!!!

 

That's neat mate. I've only been to Kashmir couple times though as a kid. Grew up in Haryana.

 

Khojne vaale sirf tukde payeenge
hum jeeboo main kagaj tood ke rahte hain
chere bhale hi dhek jayeen dil ke aayene main
baaki naam to invisible mode main rakhte hain

 

nice poem..

from haryaana? i kindaa hate people from there... bad past experience..