5 years old
Almost accustomed to the Rules
you know you have to go there everyday.
So you wake up
when Mum tries to wake you up with a glass of cold Milk.
And just like how you know
that Thursday comes after Wednesday
you know for a fact that the milk is c o l d.
Cold because she was running late
like every other day.
You couldn't possibly despise it more,
despise the sunlight for piercing through your morning eyes,
and despise the crusts on your bread
that Mum forgot to remove, again.
So while you try your best to peel off the crusts
with your fragile fingers,
you ask her with a little bit of hope,"Where is Papa?"
"He went to work, honey.", she replies.
It is nothing you never heard before.
And because it is not something you have never heard before,
you just eat your bread and you tie your shoelace
And before you know it,
you are on that Yellow bus again.
And again,
they laugh at you
and again,
they point at you so
the memory of you tripping over your shoelace
TAUNTS you
till you feel your eyes start to b u r n
like that morning sun.
And right at that moment
when once again you almost hated TODAY
Laisha saves you
by calling out your Name.
And because she knows how much you love the wind,
the way it makes your curls fly behind you --
she lets you have the window seat.
So you settle down and you smoothen the pleats on your skirt
before you show her the work you have been doing
staying up past your bed time, last night.
She looks at those crayon figurines under the Tree
and the love you showed her through those colours --
reflected back at you through her heartwarming Smile
and you just knew
Today, you will get through.
Today, I do not need to protect you.
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YOU ARE READING
Letters From The Beyond
Poesía*Born into this world* "What is this place?", she wonders. *Dissolves into the Earth* "Where do I go now?", the old soul ponders. ◇◇◇ From birth till death, the entity that never leaves your side. It is with you since your earliest existence in th...
