The moon and the tree | Rachit Sharma

What do the moon and the tree have in common?

After a long, dark, and bitter coffee we edged towards a bookstore 
- mound of sand tombs with little gods and little things...
the taste of coffee lingers on the tongue,
two atoms in active motion through the aisles 
borrowing dreams, 
later, 
as we moved toward the centre of the city 
our fingers at once pointed at something -
two things 
you pointed at the flimsy moon,
I at the peepal tree 
in its prime youth

"you are such a moon," I thought, beautiful and reticent 
I wondered what the moon and the tree share, 
apart from that one fraction of a second, 
where they shared us...
  

Rachit designs and facilitates immersive leadership programs for young people in India. He has been engaged with a number of social causes. Currently, he resides in his hometown Meerut, a city in north India.