Saturday 20 October 2018

A Picture

Amidst in Spook and Spark !!!

FLASHBACKS

Homestead, tinted wall with the dots on
People reveling around the hearth
An old man, ministered to dish up meat
Made of wheat, bone and flesh
An old woman sleeps over the tales
Makes no sense?
Season of Faust, Boozed and Binged
Performed a ritual, ticked and click-clacked
Now balls gazed over “a picture”
And a flashback of fading memories.


Long after a dawn, a kid caught
He plucked a few flowers from a shrine
People catechized and enjoined to settle,
His parents, scorned not to
Footsteps on our doorway, that old man
Nestled with a bucket full of meat and soup
He settled and enjoined for that kid
Might he was afraid of cult, May be intimidated by
Still, he owes him a life of the lamb
Now splash of sec over “a picture“
And a flashback of fading memories.


Kid vamoosed forth, in search of perch
He arrived back in town; old man has the same spark
He kissed the kid, flung back “you look so young”
Kid babbled a bit and walked out
This time distance was a bit way long
He dropped in, just to say goodbye
As it was the time again, to get back in search
Time slipped by and tenderness all crept out
Ornery clime and novel faces around
Frosty and haughty, He stood untied under aloof
Now lashes chip-chapped over “a picture”
And a flashback of fading memories.


He spent years shrewd and roving
Drowsed of stray and stree
With every step on stairs, he realized
Eyes drenched in ages,
Fading memories and hearing keep questioning?
Who you are?
His face endured in shame,
At last he has to moot over a mat
Tongue tell-talled over a tie-up
Old lady, served him tea and food
Now vision vazed over  “a picture“
And a flashback of fading memories.


Last summer, kid arranged an visit
He was happy and sad
Kid went off, Oblivious of
His deed with the death
Now nails gouged over “a picture”
And a flashback of fading memories !!!