In Search of Heaven

This is a small story in verse. Six friends come to a new city for a month long internship in their respective media fields -- two in a newspaper, two in a news channel and two in production houses. In the process, they earned memories to last a lifetime. They learned to live together. They learned to share each other's joys and sorrows.

Set in the Indian capital, New Delhi, it's their story. Just a month long, though.

It was January the seventh,
We searched for our heaven,
In the house that looked like hell
We searched for our heaven; all wasn't well.
Moving into four by eighteen,
We wondered what life had in waiting;
Just as we entered the room,
First thing we did was pick up the broom
And clean up the mess
And make the house wear a new dress.
The house that looked like a dirty river,
Did not even have a mirror;
Yet each day our reflections would rain
In that broken mirror; we found an answer to our pain.
We found a place to relax and eat,
Where we'd in the evening, after the work, meet.
We made it our home for the next forty days,
Despite going to work in our different ways.
Night or day, to us mattered none,
Drinks or no drinks we were having fun.
When one would leave, another returned,
With every day at work memories we earned.
Memories that we now spend sharing and caring
About each other's world, always cheering.
With one's first sad days or other's first printed line,
We were together, togetherness sublime,
We voiced the words for third's recorded sound,
And with fourth's editing the flow of the story we found.
At fifth's expedition all of us marvelled,
We wished all had together so travelled.
As night would come, tired, we would rise,
About each other's stories as if to apprise.
One day at Plaza, one at book fair,
One at Saket, one at Old Books here and there,
One at Chandni Chowk, at Jantar Mantar one day,
And one night hanging on to a flyover's bay.
The days rolled by, in small, small stories,
We wondered so little about there glories,
Now we wonder about the moments spent together,
Those sleepless nights and heatless weather.


To all the friends across the world!