Once Upon A Time...

 The fingerprints I left, the tears I shed

All is smoke now & all is dead

(To my mother)

The prayers you have sent,

The happiness you have burned,

The tragedies you have tolerated,

The moments you have decorated.

Once upon a time, when special ones I left,

Trifles of my people & your love with me I kept.

(To my special ones)

Standing on my broken thighs, 

Churning me with core of sighs,

When remembering your beautiful lies,

And the deep ocean like eyes.

Once upon a time, those beautiful days of my childhood

Of broken & fragmented toys, only yielded a deadwood.

(To my care takers)

The years you devoted,

The cries you quoted,

The letters you wrote,

Flinches the breath through my throat.

(To my family)

That aalaw of my mother, 

& shared secrets with brother, 

That usual scare of my father,

& an ever lasting love with sister.

Once upon a time, in a white, dark & dead winter,

That warmth of kangre still keeps me hot & brighter.

(To everyone)

Wanna tell my tales which look dead,

& tales of the borders which are red,

Old fingerprints may again knot a thread,

If not with lost friends atleast with my broken bed.

© Mohsin Itoo.

25th November, 2013.

(Once Upon A Time)

A work of fiction.