In Verse: To Dad

Written on 6th April
The tube light went poof today, daddy.
I climbed chairs and tables, and played tinker,
just like I remember you did, so many moons ago.
I remember, we'd stand by the switchboard,
jiji and I, and we'd get to play with the switch.
On. Off. On. Off. On. And then it glowed.
How did you do it, dad, how did you coax
light off it? Well, you are gone now, and all I have
is finger-dots on a dusty, distinctly unhappy tube. 

I do not know why I find this inexpressibly cute, but I do.

...

And the songbirds keep singing like they
    know the score.



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I'd expand, but I can not find the words to express the hope and the reassurance, and the bitter-sweet feelings this evokes.
Oh, this is borrowed from a song called Songbird. Lyrics by Christine McVie.

Drabble: Pitter patter

Dhruv always associated them rains with Rohini. It’d been raining, the first time they’d met. He laughed at the memory: she'd crashed into him, then unabashedly dragged him into the rain. Oh, he'd protested, she’d had none of it, and somewhere between all that tramping about the neighbourhood, and sinking hastily-made paper boats, they’d become firm friends.

That was years ago, when she’d visited her grandparents for the summer. She just stood there, today, tightly hugging herself, allowing the rain to drench her. She smiled weakly when she saw him, and went back to staring into the distance.

Drabble: And yet they're best friends

Kira looked up, when she heard the door close, then went back to methodically shredding newspaper. She barely registered her roommate’s, ‘what’s wrong?’ Half a minute later, she indicated the mess in front of her ‘I need to finish this by six.’
Ashi was bemused, ‘six?’
‘Meeting Dhruv.’
Ashi was disconcerted by her friend’s blank stare, but only nodded, unable to suppress her envy.
--Kira was now picking up fresh paper. She ripped it in half, deposited one half on the bed, then resolutely tore the other. She didn’t notice, when Ashi slipped out the room.

Meh. Again. What do you think?

ISFJ - "Conservator". Desires to be of service and to minister to individual needs - very loyal. 13.8% of total population.

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follows the rules, polite, fears drawing attention to self, dislikes competition, somewhat easily frightened, easily offended, timid, dutiful, private, lower energy, finisher, organized, socially uncomfortable, modest, not confrontational, easily hurt, observer, prone to crying, not spontaneous, does not appreciate strangeness - intolerant to differences, apprehensive, clean, planner, prone to confusion, afraid of many things, responsible, guarded, avoidant, anxious, cautious, suspicious, more interested in relationships and family than intellectual pursuits, not adventurous, fears doing the wrong thing, dislikes change (I'd disagree, perhaps, with finisher and organized)

Drabble: Reach for it, dearest

Ashi had not meant to watch it. No, it was taking up space on her hard drive, and she'd wanted to delete it. It wasn’t the kind of movie she'd watch; the girl was beautiful but unreachable, and she didn't like the guy's hair.
But she watched. Time went by, they looked different, they got dumped, they still laughed. They found each other. One day, she’d find someone too. Dhruv only smiled, she’d find someone to laugh with. She would not know where it would go. But there would be an open road ahead of them, and they’d laugh.