A year has magic A whole year its decisive it changes paths it drives or drains it moves or stands A person dies and we feel the pain, the memories don't remain fresh as they used to be, the pain diminishes too and as one whole year skips, the intensity tones down. Then we remember but not with pain, with smiles and sadness together. Then we remember but oh so occasionally. Then we remember, but so rarely. So I am waiting for the year to end. A one whole year spent without your presence. (But then I am lying here, when was it that your presence wasn't felt?) without seeing or hearing, without knowing life's little or bigger changes. And if this year's end brings a change, if I remember but with less pain, if I remember oh so occasionally, if I remember very rarely, and in the end if the intensity mellow down, I will come to know its over. But there is always another side to the mirror. If it all stays the same, the feelings, the presence, remembrance a