mom.. here i come!!!

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birds cages
twigs nests
golden chests
cobbled path
brick red stoned walls
poles of iron rust
laiden with dust
spiralling stairs
ricketty chairs
creaking door hinges
cracked walls
roofless tops
spider cobwebs
stained bathtubs
a shadeless tree
stands amidst dried tulsi
a pot of tea
cooker whistling
portraits hung
framed wooden
a distant call
the metal buckets fall
water gushing
muddy brown
salt strewn
a distant bell
of the temple atop
a splash of rain
choked drains
soaked me
eyes searching for me
heart pounding
silk saree serenading
eyes moist and anxious
arms stretched warm and tender
white fluffly towels
wrapping me in to a bundle
baked biscuits
fried cutlets
roasted cashews and almonds
mom's scented jasmines
my uniform buttons undone
homework never done
red remarked calender
dog-eared pages
blue-inked smudged faces
torn ribbons
unopened uneaten tiffins
faded curtains
soft saree cottons
muffins and raisins
mom's scented jasmines
now weary wornout
bald toothless knocked out
old wrinkled
wretched broken
mom.......here i come.......!!