...picking up the stones
Down came the engine, and broke up its bones
Ah, said the piggy, that is not fair
Oh, said the engine driver, I don't care.
It came back ! My favorite nursery rhyme came back ! After three decades of hibernation !
As Daivik was insisting on stories from "when you were small", and I was digging into memory for authentic accounts, this rhyme just came into being. Again. And with it, in very vivid details, the house we lived in then, the railway track across the (now non-existent) rice fields, the 7:40 AM diesel engine train, the shrillness of its whistle as it pierced across open spaces, the gooseberry tree, the parrot green berries, their distinctive sourness...
It was like bumping into your best friend from high school as you turned a corner in an unfamiliar city, the friend whom life just took you away from, without a reason, without even a fight. I was thrilled, and ended up singing this silly rhyme in one continuous loop, until everybody cried STOP. But then it is committed in more memories now.
Piggy, you are safe.
Down came the engine, and broke up its bones
Ah, said the piggy, that is not fair
Oh, said the engine driver, I don't care.
It came back ! My favorite nursery rhyme came back ! After three decades of hibernation !
As Daivik was insisting on stories from "when you were small", and I was digging into memory for authentic accounts, this rhyme just came into being. Again. And with it, in very vivid details, the house we lived in then, the railway track across the (now non-existent) rice fields, the 7:40 AM diesel engine train, the shrillness of its whistle as it pierced across open spaces, the gooseberry tree, the parrot green berries, their distinctive sourness...
It was like bumping into your best friend from high school as you turned a corner in an unfamiliar city, the friend whom life just took you away from, without a reason, without even a fight. I was thrilled, and ended up singing this silly rhyme in one continuous loop, until everybody cried STOP. But then it is committed in more memories now.
Piggy, you are safe.
You had a great talent of writing Varadha beyond science....I am happy Daivik could brought it out! After reading all these, I feel like having a chat with you and your lil one...someday!
ReplyDeleteThanks Sumana for your nice words. We must definitely catch up.
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