THE SURPRISE!!

The surprise!!

Many times I had been alone,

But never felt so lonely before,

That too, on my twenty-first birthday,

A day I had been dreaming of, since yore,

My family was not in town,

None of my friends had wished me at midnight,

The clock ticked two, and I thought,

It’s better to catch some sleep light,

My eyes had barely closed,

When I heard a knock on the door,

I smiled, I wished, I prayed,

For a surprise in store,

I rushed madly to open it,

Only to find no one outside,

Crestfallen, I felt, and shattered too,

But just when I was about to go inside,

My eyes noticed a note lying,

It said, come to the garden a block away,

I put on my slippers and ran,

My heart was leaping, in joy it did sway,

I had been waiting for a surprise,

And now my excitement grew tenfold,

It was pitch dark; I saw a few shadows in the garden,

One grabbed me, other gagged me and I was blindfold,

I was put in the car, and none spoke a word,

And that’s when I started wondering,

I wasn’t quite sure they were my friends,

I was tense, I began palpitating,

The car moved for eternity,

Not a word was said,

I was now sure I was being kidnapped,

And to escape, I began devising plans, in my head,

Subconsciously I started murmuring a prayer,

And that’s when a faint chuckle I heard,

They untied me, removed my blindfold,

And I saw them, my best friends, my herd,

I have seen countless birthday surprises,

But none so adventurous as this,

It turned out to be quite a night,

A night, one just couldn’t miss…………