STRANGER TURNED CHAT FRIEND

I chatted with a stranger that day.

Was it a mistake that I did?

I don't know what came over me that day.

I still think I was completely stupid.

Earlier, I had some principles.

I broke them on my own.

Though they were my own rules

Yet they were simply blown.

It was absolutely strange for me

That I was doing something like that.

Some intellectuals will probably say,

"What's a big deal in having a normal chat?"

Well! When something is done for the first time,

Things are certainly different for the doer.

Moreover, he was totally unknown.

For me, he was just a stranger.

Now, don't look at me with contempt and scorn

For chatting with someone whom I never knew.

Even if for once in a lifetime, at that moment,

I wholeheartedly wanted to commit a mistake too.

Haha! My whole life has been a rule-dictionary.

I was surely a good rule-following girl.

I still don't know if it was the goodness in me

Or some obscure fear of a high level.

Fear was somewhat less.

It was respect for elders that I had.

For any dreary mistake of mine,

I didn't want them to get mad or sad.

So, I decided to restrain my playfulness

To avoid the company of bad children.

But somewhere deep inside my pure soul,

There was always a whimsical child hidden.

I devoted myself just to my studies

To stay away from futile distractions.

Anything else hardly mattered to me.

I was far away from fashion or shitty attractions.

Oh!When you get habitual of repeating something,

You tend to become what you practice.

My face and personality seemed sombre.

I turned into a good con artist, I guess.

Now, when I ponder upon those vague chats,

I don't see them as some horrible mistake.

But, always at the back of my mind,

The memories of past incessantly ache.

This stranger seems a good friend now.

I hope this friendship never changes.

I don't expect anything else from him.

I hope he respects friendship's ranges.

God forbid if he fails in keeping this friendship,

I will consider it to be my first jolly mistake.

I know I will be dejected and forlorn for a while.

At least I will be content for not being fake.

I won't be meeting this stranger ever in my life

For it was one of my conditions to be his friend.

I genuinely don't wish for any chaos anymore.

I am happy being just a "STRANGER TURNED CHAT FRIEND".

--------------------------------------------------------------------------©Radhika Gupta(August 5,2018)