Dear Mum and Dad: A poem 

It is like waking up blind  The sunlight left behind  In a spidery alley  The accidental victim’s galley  Every comma in the footnote  spells the black pain in rote  Life’s blemishes of deluging rain  Hope’s grassroots in vain  It’s daunting when the drop is sheer  Courage like futile sweat and tear  Can’t figure out theContinue reading “Dear Mum and Dad: A poem “

Living in the past, learning from the present: A poem 

Another pebble swallowed by time’s lake  A day gone yonder in dusk’s wake  Stare at the stars that to the skies are glued  And think of childhood’s warming burning wood  I am wedded to picture-frames of the past  The melancholy at happy seasons that couldn’t last  Memories are a river to draw from and dipContinue reading “Living in the past, learning from the present: A poem “

Someday: A poem 

At the stroke of midnight, in the glade, sunshine  with stars sparkling in the sky’s diamond mine  The energy in the street brimming with honest vigour  A deer in deep conversation with a tiger  On the waves, sharks frolicking with the surfers  Boats of refugees finding welcoming harbours  Rainbows caressing windows, not thunderstorms  Drones deliveringContinue reading “Someday: A poem “