Friday 10 February 2023

Recipe Of Love




Day breaks

With a steaming cuppa tea

No sweet please...only dairy whitener

No milk either

Sweetness does not go with 

Crackling of dreams

Mid morning 

A cup of coffee with milk again no sugar

Sometimes it's too strong

I tell him to make it a frothy one

With just a sprinkle of coffee powder

On the creamy layer of froth

Afternoon

Twice a week a bowl of starchy corn soup

"You should not be drinking this", friend says

Still I do

Though it does not go with the

The warmth of a dry curry with lentils

And bread (we call it roti) and a bowl of boiled rice

Destarched ....snowy white

Thereafter

My craving for something sweet is satiated

By my room mate

He offers me churme ki laddu

Made by his ma-in-law

With lots of love and care

Divinely delicious dissolving inside the mouth

Like a star de-moulding in a black hole 

Mid afternoon

Again a cup of coffee

To make me realize am still alive

This time ti's rather drab

The maker is tired by the rut

Evening

Again a cuppa tea just like morning

Dinner

Simple -- left overs of the day

That's the way it is

From breaking  till remaking of dreams

To forget during the gruels of the day

We feed ourselves the recipes of love

Not exotic nor exorbitant nor exhilarating 

Had it been so we would not have doodled an irresistible garnish

Or perhaps taken our last breath 

Turning and tossing in oblivion


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