Time to Spare - By Apurva Gaonkar

Today I found some time to spare

Like the Ghost Orchid, tall and fair

Enchanting enough to excite my heart

With looks so fragile, like the priciest art

But the truth it is, however rare

Oh what should I do in this time to spare!

So burdened with this time to spare

I look around in despair

Suddenly, the air feels light and calm,

And I notice my breaths, soothing like a balm

But my mind races to find

Something unique in kind

To be done in this time to spare.

So armed with this time to spare

I probably began to care

Recalling those once called friends

Now relations difficult to amend

Maybe it is best to be alone

And not find company in the phone

For retrospection may put me at ease

In this time to spare.

With this time to spare

I notice the shades the trees wear

The birds that hop around its branches

The butterflies that flutter their colors around

I see the majestic hills behind them

And the sun shining, a bright emblem

Descending over my simple troubles

Bursting them like fragile bubbles

I spend some valued moments with myself

In this time to spare.