Hide and Seek - Part 6 - Rhyming & Non Rhyming Poems by Nikhil Parekh - HTML preview

15. SHE LOVED HER BABY MORE THAN SHE LOVED HER GOD

She hurled him high in the air; exuberantly catching him in her safe arms,

Suckled him passionately with her milk; harnessing his tiny form with her warmth,

Played with him incessantly; instructing him how to unwind the soft toy train,

Cleansed his mischievous face frequently of mud and blotted ink,

Held his fragile fingers firmly in hers; trying to inculcate in him the art of walking,

Tickled him voraciously on his belly; which prompted him to incoherently giggle; displaying fresh buds of his newly formed teeth,

Placed him in the bathtub filled with heaps of flocculent foam; thoroughly scrubbing his minuscule silhouette,

Gave him a honey soother to chew; in order to facilitate the metamorphosis of his teeth,

Rubbed his supple body with emollient olive oil; basking him in the full light of the Sun,

Applied black lining of mascara on his drooping eyelashes; to accentuate his huge crystal eyes,

Tied jingling chains to his feet; which produced a tinkling sound as he ran,

Taught him the indispensability of language; with a bulky book of articulate alphabets lying by her side,

Scrupulously changed his yellow diaper; as he had a habit of intermittently wetting,

Sprinkled tons of aromatic powder on his arms; attempting to make his somber complexion multiple shades fairer,

Placed him amidst an island of inflated balloon; which he inadvertently pinched; and was dumbfounded on hearing the thunderous noise produced thereafter,

Fed him with a pulverized curry of milk and fresh corn; at painstaking speeds; for him to digest the same with ease,

Cuddled his shock of curly hair entwining her fingers; combed it after giving him a revitalizing massage,

Took him out in the spongy grass to play; introducing him to a cluster of new children,

Wiped his tears with her tender lips; when he unrelentingly cried; pacified him by singing melodious rhymes,

Kept all doors locked; providing him a formidable enclosure to inhabit; saving his innocuous form; from hideous eyes of the evil,

She loved her baby more than she loved her God;

Gave him his last feed of sumptuous milk; before putting him of to a blissful slumber.