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Here’s a semi-autobiographical poem I wrote long ago, when I had just joined college… I wrote it for an On the Spot Creative Writing competition and it went on to win prizes in several places. Now that I look back, its pretty jejune and ‘purple’….but hey, what the heck, I was only 17!

It’s So Easy to Fall in Love

As I sit dreaming, I hear Aerosmith tease,

‘Falling in love is so hard on the knees’.

And though I don’t jump at every given chance,

Somehow I just can’t avoid such a cheap coincidence.

Even I was a kid, once upon a time,

Studies came first and love was a crime.

But as a tumbled into teenage,

I noticed that there was coming a change.

Suddenly my skirts got shorter,

Nails were filed,

I didn’t do as I oughtta’,

‘Cause I was no more a child.

One fine day, I saw the movie ‘Top Gun’;

Like those fighter pilots soared my imagination.

I realized that even I had the blues,

And before I could get up,

I had fallen for Tom Cruise.

He was so good looking,

So handsome, so cool…

I would daydream all day,

I was such a lovefool!

His clippings and posters adorned my room.

But alas! There came a day of gloom.

I realized he was happily married

And had kids of his own.

Sigh! Broken hearted…

Never again would I be love-prone.

So I stopped watching movies,

Lest I should again fall for a star.

I switched over to sports,

And got bowled over by a cricketer!

How wonderful he was,

So what if he was from Pakistan?

Always victorious,

Oh! Macho Man Imran Khan!

But then it was no longer discrete,

He was a ball-tampering cheat.

A middle aged playboy big,

And a Male Chauvinist Pig!

Then I turned into a music buff

And coping with life became tough.

This time, to mend my broken heart,

Michael Jackson took his part.

I was teased and tormented by my friends,

“Never fall for these musicians!”

It wasn’t even clear whether he was Black or White,

And I realized that they were actually right.

I heard people say

Naughty things he did to kids

On the pretext of play.

He was so weird, such a nerd,

And then, I didn’t even know whether he was straight or gay!

So I put up a sign in my brain which said ‘NO’!

I would look at no man.

Till I happened to see a fashion show

And went gaga over Milind Soman.

What a body, what grace,

That dazzling smile, that sculpted face.

The way he talked, the way he walked,

He was no less than a Greek god.

“Never mind his girlfriend, honey,

He would leave her soon for me!”

My standard reply would be that,

Till the time I saw him act.

And even though I was optimistic,

Secretly, I was beginning to think he was sick.

I thought I would keep my heart under lock and key,

But as if I hadn’t had my fill,

I found I was crazy about a video jockey

And that was Danny Mc Gill.

But on Danny I didn’t make a lot of fuss,

He was just a small time crush!

Finally it was time to change my tactics

And bring practicality into practice.

I decided to come down to earth.

In Delhi, and in my college,

Of guys there was no dearth.

So I didn’t try to avert my fate

When I realized I had fallen for a classmate.

To me our common friend came to confide

That this time it was from both sides!

How time ‘flied’,

He promised me the world,

Till I realized, he had lied

And had made the same promises to another girl!

Every time I fall in love,

I fall down with a thud.

Crash, boom, bang,

And nipped in the bud.

You must be bored now,

Thinking what else is in store.

Well, just thought I’d tell you,

I have fallen for that cute thing next door!

We go for long walks

He listens, I talk.

Sometimes he comes to my house, or I visit his.

He is so very cute

And I call him my ‘Prince’.

He is so different, and I’m so happy,

For Prince is not a guy, but a Labrador puppy!

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