Are You Not Beautiful?

Are you not beautiful?

Asked my son!

I smiled

And said

Yes I am!

Then why don’t

You look like

The Barbie doll

You gifted me on my

Last Birthday?

Because it still

Has your attention!

I replied

My son

Slept with me

That night

Making the Barbie

Sleep in his room!

Early morning while

Packing his bag

I found

A page from one

Of his notebooks

Questioning

Him

Why don’t you look beautiful?

With lots of love

Your bench partner

Dolly!

I ruffled his hair

That night and

Said

Probably you took

That

Doll or dolly

A bit too seriously!

He smiled

After all

You gifted

Me

This whole

Beautiful

World of

Dolls, Dollys and School

Where

We both

Don’t look beautiful!

Still we sleep together.

He kissed me

And slept peacefully

That night!

He wakes up and quips

‘Aren’t you taking a

Doll bit too seriously now?

‘No!’ I replied!

I see him burring Barbie under Neem tree,

The following evening!