New hair new look

My hair is so multicoloured I'm excited.
Not sure how much my family will like it but I'm excited about the different look I'm sporting. In time for my holiday with friends and the new year😀. Cost me 385 dollars! Sigh.

December reflections

What has 2018 been like? 

Work wise. Awesome for lit. Lit flag flying high.  Challenging for team dynamics.
Family... devi has a baby., after so many years of trying, truly a prayer answered
Saros father, cancer, operation, recovery  - tough
My grandmother- recovering after a fall
My brother and parent - rift is still there. My parents may have seen deepa only a handful of  times. Soon  she may forget my parents.  That's making me sad. The whole situation there. I fear she may be grow up different.  And that gonna be tough for my brother and family.  Acceptance is important.  And I'm troubled about his mental health. .
I'm forty.
Mixed feelings
Really wanted to get published.  Haven done much work towards it

Library home

First you took my library
You tore those greek columns down
Ripping pages and burying it in tarmac
Where now a tunnel flows
Saving us five min in travel time
At the expense of history

Now you've taken my home
Razing it down and calling it
Affinity At Serangooon
You don't recognise irony
Even when it kicks you in the face
What we had was affinity
A home for 30 years
Where i grew up
Where my children were born

And now it will become
Dust
Before it is raised again
In tiny shoebox form
Affinity

First my library then my home
What next?

Lizard

I can't get over the image I have of a writhing mass Of limbs under our cycles.
My dad and I ran over a monitor lizard yesterday. It shocked us completely. But it got away. No trace of blood or anything. I've never had an encounter like that before. It dashed out suddenly right at my father's wheels as he was talking to me while cycling. I was too near him. I saw it before him and screamed. Then it ran right in front of me and I couldn't stop or turn away or stop screamimg.
I pray to god it's ok.
I went back to check on it, thinking I could call acres if it was hurt but I could see no sign of it.
We are lucky it didnt  attack my dad. It could have lashed out at his foot.
Sigh.
How awful.

Piano tuner 2

White hair at the temple
Clear gaze
You take the food and drink I offer
Taste it with relish
We talk.

Surrounded by my 3 small children
I'm so clearly out of bounds
As you are to me too.

I wonder
How might it be
To transgress those invisible lines
between us
And even before I can go further
I know how it will end
Devoid of the magic
We'd just be tired people

The forbidden fruit loses its sweetness
The second it's tasted
So
For beauty
For pleasure
For dreams
Stay forever too far
And we shall meet
Once a year
When you tune my piano

The piano tuner

You walk in
With your easy smile
Your sure hands
Your steady step.

Your fingers run across the keys

You take it apart with practised ease
You slide your hands in
Fine tuning keys
Oil the silent one to make it sing
You peer in, feel, check, adjust.

Under your smooth hands
The piano comes alive
Humming with melodies
Hudden in its depths