A birthday poem..

bought a friend a book as a present and this is the note i wrote on the front page..

Brought this book as a birthday present for “u”

To go down the memory lane of a youthful “u”

To let nostalgia shroud its envelope around “u”

Though a time machine would have been the perfect gift for “u”

Which anyways I couldn’t have conjured;

Nonetheless experience a time-travel surely shall “u”

By the time ricochet back to the present do “u”

From the streets that vandalized your chums and “u”

From the college canteen that reverberate still with echoes of your haha n hoo;

From the parking stands where the first crush appeared before “u”

From the classrooms where caught were u peeking at a chit or two;

From the birthdays on hostel roofs; cake and booze splayed “u”

Come back now as my poem ends here;

But there is still this book to take “u”

through the rest…