Papoosh etc - Marriage, Motherhood, Mayhem and Musings!

To wait for the best, To look past the pest, You taught me life's lessons You taught me patience. To look the world in the eye, To stand by my 'No's when all said aye, You taught me life's lessons You taught me confidence. To stay put, no matter what, The meaning of "I do" until naught, You taught me life's lessons You taught me allegiance. To take it all with a smile, To still believe, When my faith, they defile, You taught me life's lessons You taught me endurance.

From Stick Ice Creams To living my dreams, From fairy tales To weighing corporate scales, You’ve been my guide, My mentor, my ally, You set the bar, Been the best. I love you Daddy Dearest. From you I learnt How not to be burnt By a book unwisely Chosen. Instead, if I may, Call it my talent to assay, A book by its cover Makes me quite the entertainer. Of course, it is you I owe this to, You are the assayer ablest. I love you Daddy Dearest. From seafood to mutton I am a borderline glutton. My love for food, Dates back to girlhood, When any restaurant, New or old We would go and explore And let the magic unfold. For culinary connoisseur You are adeptest. I love you Daddy Dearest. My partner in crime, From you I get My tendency to rhyme. Life’s lessons you taught me To always put first family. In that too an order, First preference to mother. My pillar at my bleakest, My cheerer when I’m wea

Sadly, And I’m sure you agree, Love isn’t perfect, No cut and dry subject, And still we cling to it unabashedly. I go back in time, Pick memories from our prime, My attempt, you see, To shelter, to preserve, To build a sanctuary, When threatened to dissolve. Each day I get wearier, But still I persevere, My fingers, they bleed From thorns that outbreed The soft petals that I try to gather. And sadly, Here I am, absently, Picking at scabs, Snapping like crabs At all that comes To absolve me. For isn’t it Life’s Pretty little curse The more you love, The more you nurse A heart that may not Be broken, But nonetheless, is as great A burden.

I gave you mine, You gave me yours, No time to think And none to pause. Go back one blink Or one ahead, Its all the same, And to boot, so lame!! A misdirected word here, An aim missed and a cut there, That’s all it takes, The beast awakes, Avenge it must, The knife it will thrust, No matter what, or where. And such, my friend, is anger, You can put out the fire, But all it needs, Is one small swish, A whiff, a hint, All it needs, Is just one, tiny little ember.

Here we go again Cursing our lives mundane Not seeing, not caring That the truth sits right here In our faces Staring. You said this I said that, You Vs Me A never ending spat It goes on From day to day Wearing us down And slowly we drown In an abyss of our own despair! The misplaced glee at the other’s misery, The force of our anger, The weight of our agony, Engulfs us, surrounds us, Extracts from us, Its bloody price. And then suddenly, Out of nowhere, Without a whisper, Without an inkling, A smiles teases to escape, To break free, A breath of fresh air. To Freedom, We grope, The smile, it beckons, To Utopia, A memory ,of good things, of warmth, You pull at it, I lunge for it, And here we are again, In lives arcane, Tied together by hope, By love, by marriage, Our very own acrobatic Tightrope!