A mustard ball out of my Lunette windows,
Blonde dawn brushing cucumber breeze on me.
My berry blue roof; like a Dove lake frosted up above,
Casted as shadows; sheltering me.
The mauve floor; my feet tapping on its euphoria,
Clasping to heal my oozing blotches; an artwork of thorns.
I trampled down the cinnamon stairs; Daffodils perching on each verge,
The moist summer warbles jauntily in me; I do not deny to listen to it.
I make my way; ahead and ahead; to seek the luster and splendor left.
The old shop with cardboard walls,
It has been there since I ran recklessly; hankering after rainbow butterflies,
Ruby glass candies sparkling so bright; reflecting fragrant roses all around.
There he is; the Vegetable man in his tattered black shirt,
He turns up every Saturday; with contrasting Capsicums and Lemons,
Adding savors to nameless dishes in my head.
The unchanged emerald carpet sprawled at the seaside,
I scribbled my soul on it; it hums a familiarly unknown melody.
The sundown is my companion; again,
We watch the same mustard ball; dipped in amber waters.
Bidding a vowing return; had split itself on us; we were half lit.
The city laid incandescing like silvers of a necklace; night coupled on its ends,
Invited me in its home; offering a cup of nostalgia, once more.
Abundant grey shafts changing patterns on my grubby sneakers,
Here I am; bearing a resemblance to the weary moon.
My mother’s hanged old lantern is glowing fervently; a deep apricot tone.
I had wandered all around; tinges and glimmers bewitched me,
Narrating millions of stories, longing me to tarry.
How do I tell them to paralyse now?
That I did find so much of glints and glitters; soaked my pastel fingers in them.
But none could replace my mother’s hanged old lantern.
My brown orbs could gape at it in one single breath, staring longer and still.
The deep apricot light;
It got deeper and my love for it too.
I see grinning faces in it;
Faces that were gone untimely.
Faces that sent me back into buried days.
Faces in which I confined when the stars had slumbered.
Faces that kept me warmer than my childhood blanket.
