My Father Knows I'm Growing

My father helped me with framing questions. "How is it to write?" I asked. He also helped me with answers. Here's one for him. Happy Father's Day. Late like always.

*****

(1)

Know that you're growing when
His clothes start to fit you great

Know that you're growing when
Love for him comes with hate

Know that you're growing when
Life throws at you some haunts

Know that you're growing when
All of that's solved by those taunts

Know that as a child you never really grew
His laughter used to make everything new

(2)

Know that you've grown when
His clothes make you feel old

Know that you've grown when
All love and hate for him is sold

Know that you've grown when
You have problems, never to share

Know that you've grown when
About his taunts you stop to care

Know that you've never grown all this while
It's all a waste if you can't make him smile

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

My New Year Journal

 I wrote this one a year back. Thought I'd write a new New Year poem this time around. But couldn't write something as apt as this one for the kind of year it has gone by. Still, wish you a very Happy New Year. *** The last page of my beloved journal Has always been a clumsy one Words pouring off the margins with A summary of what I lost and won I used to write my achievements And all those roastings I'd collect Days when my crush held my hand And days when she would neglect But today when I'm trying to write My pen's dry and the page's clean Gloom setting in through the whites That's the kind of year it has been Scanning through the previous pages Searching for something to spell Found no memories to be cherished The commonest word being "HELL!" I'm not even being distracted today The journal is the only one to speak to It's been a good friend, holding me up When I thought life's giving me no clue Reluctantly, I set my pen on the sheet...
Read more

Ashes

Ashes are the most difficult part to handle. Even more than the loss, of course. *** I will tell you when it is time for me I hope you will be present there to see To see that I have lived up to my word Of recalling you till my existence blurred I want you there, but with no tears please Or at the deathbed, you will fail to appease Appease my soul, leaving my mortal body When I see last, you shouldn't be shoddy I want you happily smiling at my ashes For only you can see the joy that flashes Flashes out of my black ash left behind This is one job for which you're assigned
Read more

Answering the Why?

Apparently, the blog title doesn't make it very clear. I know. I speculated a lot upon the title, trying to come up with different sort of names, mixing and matching every single word possible. To no avail. Now my title stands as a combination of five not special words in a not so special order. But with a very different question. How is it to write? That's precisely what I aim to achieve through it. As someone calling whom a writer might be a disgrace, I start out this blog. I don't know much when it comes to literature. My experiences are a lot less diverse. But it only takes a few words and some bubbling emotions to come out on paper. So that's what I did. My blog doesn't have any rigid frameworks. What comes to it could be poems, short stories, life experiences and more. By me and helped by a few other people. It's going to be fun. Maybe not. Let's leave that part and get to writing. Happy writing, happy reading.
Read more