I Wish!

Her insane laughter that played with the inelegant locks of her dry hair

The kajal smeared over her face, diluted by the tears shed over the mini-ordeal

Her incessant curiosity that often crossed that bounds of my narrow mindset

Her talking to the birds in the verandah that always kept fresh my hidden fears

Ah! I wish all that’s precious could be captured in time.

Today as I see her hair oiled and combed for the first time, insanity hides humbly in her hair band

Her eyes no more playful as they used to be, her head bowed in either prayer or fear

As no tear drops could wash the stark dark lines, I wonder whether she was spared the ordeal today…

I close my eyes for a while and see her wings opening up, slowly flying over the narrow streets of the village…

I wonder whether she knows the path, I wonder whether she’ll remember me when she touches the sky…

Ah! I wish there weren’t other worlds to sing.