Not so long ago...

Not so long ago
I thought it was...
climbing those Guava trees
One in the front yard
one in the backyard

Not so long ago

I thought it was

When Nanna chopped off

Coconut heads

And I drank out of them

without a glass or a straw

pretending to slurp

Palm wine raw

Not so long ago

I thought it was....

When we dug into mangoes

Hidden under heaps of hay

On Summer Mornings & evenings

On noons and nights

Under beds

Inside Gunny bags of rice

Not so long ago

Did we sleep in open air

Under the guava tree

on wired cots and

On Terrace tops

Shooing away mosquitoes

and Monkeys

Not so long ago

I thought it was

when jasmines adorned

my unruly hair

Not so long ago

I thought it was

Life just happened...

Sitting at my doorstep

staring at the dark sky

and a silver lining of the moon

on a humid Southern evening

I reminisce all those days

That went by

Not so long ago....