Trix

(Strikes a pose)
I asked you
And I did ask nice,
If you
Will play
With me.

We can play
At whatever you
like.

We can play at
(ticks these off fingers)
Hi-ding/
See-king/
Charades/

I told you
Whatever
You like.

We can even draw
On nice drawing paper
(sits on the stool with legs crossed)
Red hearts
And black hearts
And bruised and broken hearts

As I said,
We can do as you
Like.

And then, after
Playin, while drinking hot
Chai on the porch outside the house
(doesn't know where to look, so stares at feet)
I will hear your silence,
And know you've gone
Before you left.

And I won't say anything,
(self-deprecation is a must)

Because I did tell you
You can do whatever
And my pride won't say a thing.

©Phalguni Desai April 09, 2006