Bring Back My Valley

Something inside has not grown
Child in me, still forlorn

What was sowed, never reaped
Alas! Only abhorrence was heaped

What got started, never ended
Innocent friendship was dented 

Birthday cakes, wafers, candies perished
Before memories could be cherished

Fields, farms, friends was my abode
One thick night, thrown like a truckload

Friends turned foe, goaded by grown-ups
Coaxed to follow, just like little pups

That moment, I lost my childhood
Out of my hearth, like lakhs in the wild wood

Night swallowed my innocence in its girth
Valley is no more, but only a place of birth

Broods long to see Mom’s childhood hideouts
Homes charred, now location is also in doubt

Those moments of goodness, sealed in memory now
Smeared, soaked with unbridled giggle and love

Bring back my childhood, Bring back my Valley
Bring back those times, when everyone was paly.