Competition Entry

One day can change the path of one’s life,
Whether towards pleasure, or maybe to strife.
12 years ago my family relocated to an unknown country,
Where people were mysterious and unlike me physically.
An alien I must have been,
Amidst crowds that weren’t the same, even through skin.
And even now I imagine often
“What if we stayed?” It’s quite common.
Yet when I think about what WOULDN’T have happened if we had stayed,
My questions quickly fade.
My current friends would be gone
(though I know that I’d have other friends)
My life would just need too many amends.
If someone were to ask whether I’d change the course of that one special day,
Now, I’d reply with, “No way!”

Oh Preacher,
If you cannot provide me with such knowledge,
Then I assume one cannot win my love.
Where one fails, one also succeeds.
And, Oh Beggar,
If my donations must not be enough,
How time must foolishly betray me.
As one retains, one’s affection is also abolished.
Oh Sinner,
You are just one solitary,
And if one must inhabit such inequalities,
Maybe one feels introverted from the world?
When one cherishes, one also regrets.
And, Oh Sibling,
A rival certainly not be me, or so otherwise.
I am sorry for how the folly of responsibility has yet again attacked me;
Care to receive your award?

Today is the day,
everybody is calm!
The sky will play,
hip hip hooray.
Everyday is not a special day,
only today

For me was an auspicious date
With pomp and show my parents had to celebrate
With God’s grace one takes birth
My birthday it was, the day I came on Earth…
True happiness I wanted to find
I had an idea in mind
Bowing before the almighty, I wrote on a page
This birthday let us visit an orphanage
There are children with no families
We must help them I request please
Reaching the place with lots of ice cream, sweets and toys
We find many innocent girls and boys
With a big smile they welcomed
How pleasant they are, I hummed
Afternoon it was with a bright shiny sun
Distributing things among children was great fun
They conveyed their thanks and warm wishes
Next birthday I would treat them with nice dishes
You will gain happiness, there will be no loss
Be sympathetic and work for noble cause
Till date me and my parents say for us
It was indeed a very special day
Thank you

You lied to me…

Princess Pea with the sore knee
drank lots and lots of medicinal tea.
His nerves were shot, quite a lot.
You see, he’s lost the plot.
He thinks his brain caused the pain.
But he ain’t got brain strain.

Princess Pea with the sore knee,
came to me with his plea.
I’m doing my time for a stupid crime.
I over did it, you see,
with leg lunges and crunches,
squats and whatnots.

Princess Pea with the sore knee,
you must agree with me.
You’re an exercise parolee,
so don’t stretch it too far,
or you won’t become a exercise superstar.

Princess Pea is code for Princess Plowman (my dad!)

A special day isn’t always a day that’s filled with surprising events
It’s a day when you can be with loved ones
Showering each other with presents
That don’t have to have a monetary value

A special day could be a weekend when everyone’s together,
Waking up late, after the clock strikes noon,
Sunny or rainy, any weather,
Living through anything together is a special day in itself

A special day could be a birthday or some other holiday,
Yet when the years pass through and through,
It won’t be a holiday or a birthday that you remember all day,
It’ll be those normal days that turn into your own special days.

Diagnosed with something new,
Never before seen in a history of families,
A plague that overthrew
Not only my best friend, but countless others too.

I remember those days of walks in the gardens,
Watching golden bees flutter by, flowers yielding neon signs of ‘Spring.’
When life wasn’t such a burden.
When I could be as carefree and happy as I wanted to be without worrying.

But those days flew by too fast,
Leaving me behind without someone to walk with, talk with, laugh with.
To be myself is in the past,
And they say to move on.

How to move on?
When a friend of mine was encaptured by a thing called cancer…
When that means no more feeding fish in a lake, hand in hand, smiles on faces, herebyon?
But they say forget.

It’s hard they always say, but they don’t know that impossible is the truth.
But when I look among the stars,
I can see the glistening pearls of my grandfather’s teeth,
And then, I know he was and will never be gone to me.

Mum wakes me up,
Says it’s time to check out big school,
I grunt in reply but go back to sleep,
She comes rushing up,
Shrieks it’s 8:15.
I rush to school,
Trying to go unnoticed,
But I get put in detention,
With Ali McHenton,
Gosh, what a day,
I storm upstairs to my bedroom,
I lie face down on my bed,
Mum wakes me up,
She says it’s the first day of big school,
And I’m late!

Waking up, the day’s finally here,
The day I’ve been waiting for all year,
Switching my ming to prank mode,
In my brothers bag I can place a toad,
Green dye to put in my sister’s hair,
There’s no way I’m playing fair,
For my dad,
Something really bad,
And for my mum, bad news
A chocolate cake in her shoes,
Everything they’ve done to me,
I can’t wait, ”Hee hee hee”
After all that I’ll call my friends to dine,
I’m so excited finally, revenge will be mine!