Hey! Slow Down!

The other day, while traversing a zebra crossing at a leisurely pace, a car almost ran over me. ‘Come on boyo, hurry up, will you? This isn’t a park!’ shouted the driver. Indeed! My foot had barely touched the pavement when the car vroom-vroomed, rushing past me at great speed, brushing my back ever so … Continue reading Hey! Slow Down!

Happy Birthday to Me!

Yesterday was my birthday. My twenty-third. The problem with that is not that time passes too quickly, but that it passes at all. As one birthday succeeds another they lose their significance and gradually acquire fatalistic connotations. Another birthday, another milestone on the highway to Lady Death... I can understand why children and people with … Continue reading Happy Birthday to Me!

Vain Wishes

How I wish I could postpone tomorrow, Forget yesterday, And endlessly prolong today! Like painters do, I would trick the moon into hanging still in one corner of the sky, And keep on you a beam of moonlight, And again and again, Like a sad tune on repeat, Pass by you on the street, And … Continue reading Vain Wishes