I WAITED AND WAITED

I waited and waited

All my days

Expecting his bell

At my door

KALEIDOSCOPE JULY 2014

July equals sundry experiences. Intriguing incidents, conversations, gossips and many more. Some were painful, some shameful. Some were humorous, some bizarre. All pieced together makes this article an iridescent kaleidoscope.

FLUTIST

In a suburb train

As I commute to my college

Daily, I see

BOTTLEFISH

He’s a fish

In the bottle

And a fish

Out of the bottle

He’s a fish

Among the bottles

A bottle

Can’t contain him

So can’t he

Contain self with one

Thirst-angel

Gulp gulp gulp

Throat craves

More more more

Want not of tongue

Life

Corked in the bottle

Death drowns him

In the bottle.

WHAT WE LOST WHEN WE GAINED?

I became blind at ten, and after a year’s stay home, joined a special school to resume my studies. I learnt Braille, and in three month’s time knew to read and write both Tamil and English (including shorthand).

CRASH AND CRY

I heard a crash

Crash that pierced the air

What Happened in the Operation Theatre?

I was sitting on the edge of the bed at my ward. To kill time, I was nibbling at a yummy plum cake. My right eye was bandaged with a long strip of cotton. There were two others in the room. Two mothers. One Mine and the other my mother’s.