At five, I had friends
with runny noses and grimy hands
half tucked ink stained shirts
and pink hello kitty hair bands
friends with lunchboxes laden
apples, jim-jams and rolls
flipped open and shared
even before the lunch bell tolls
friends who smuggled my bag in
on days that I was late
and covered my three feet high self
as I squeezed in from under the gate
some came home to me
as sniffling and shivering I lay
swathed in five layers,
they held my hand and declared
like grim old pygmy soothsayers
"You will be well in just a day
Shoo...scat you bad bad flu !!"
They made me laugh
till my sides hurt like crazy
they got back class notes for me
on days I felt too lazy
Friends that helped me plan
a birthday bash for my dog,
and gladly ate biscuits instead of cake
when the dog played the greedy hog
Friends who were oddballs
some ate chalk
others drank glue
some nibbled on erasers
one claimed he once flew
yet another could moonwalk
At five, I had friends
with broken teeth and grimy hands
Young foolish tots
they sure knew how to be friends... :)
6 comments:
very sweet, nostalgic and touching...
loved.
especially last few lines!
:)
oh i totally loved this one.... wonder what you would write about ur friends of now.. :P :P
After some serious mental turmoil, I shall accept defeat in matching up to your friends of 1989. I can eat chalk, wear little kitty hair bands and even get high on glue, but I sincerely doubt if I can gladly eat biscuits when I could have had cake.
:D
@bhavin: thanks a bunch :)
@shiv: hmmmm...this is just the first in a series of such posts (hopefully)...so u got to wait for 20 years :D
@hems: hehe....it was a butter sponge cake hems...soft and totally yum. no wonder the b'day pooch misbehaved :D
still i will give u brownie points over my 1989 friends...eshpecial holi offer :D
love it! reminded me so much of school...sigh..
@armeen: thankoo..clap clap bow :)
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