Its summer !
The time when grasshoppers work in a frenzy flowers bloom aplenty
Holiday vacations are planned and ice creams cream are darned !
Every year we would so yearningly wait for these two months after
final exams and yet when it began we'd get bored already !
My parents would plan which camp I should join this year and
I'd plan which holiday destination I'd like to travel to while day dreaming !
Mango pickles and jack fruits in the afternoon
Ice creams and jelly cooking adventures at home
treasure hunts and dark rooms games in the evening
ghost ghost kitchen set teacher teacher !
Cousins and aunties visiting home
and Old Grandma tales of talking gods and morals
Of Life's and its mystic ways and god who's always watching at bay .
Lots of television but lot more of sand castles and lock and key .
Hide an seek and denner on the back
Oh how I wish our childhood games would come back !
Of climbing trees and scraping knees
Of early morning jogs and swimming laps
Of whistling lanes and cycling through by lanes
Of cream and chocolate and lots of mangoes .
Of screaming afternoons and late evening strolls
Summer reminds me of all this and more !
Poems and stories written to pass time
Planes and boxes made in paper
flower picking and finger licking
All in all a fantastic summer afresh for the new class !
Back to reality : Its 43 degrees in Ahmd exams hovering
boredom seizures and adult treachery
Is this what I've grown up for ????
Summer Days ... are long gone !
