See-saw (Koshur Qalam challenge Jan 1, 2022.) by Koshy AV

 See-saw Koshur Kalam challenge Jan 1, 2022. by Koshy AV

The playground in the Museum

in Thiruvanathapuram

was my first see-I saw

Then a rocking horse in Bal Bhavan

saw me see-saw

I loved sitting on one end

of the big one

watching the other go up

and then running there quickly

getting on somehow

and watching the other side go up

Up and down, down and up

I did not know, playing alone

it was preparing me for life's vagaries

When it was a girl at the other end

I felt happy

We learn in miniscule

for greater tasks

in childhood

and yaw like a ship on the sea

drunken in the winds of time

and change

stagger to the tune of

what goes up must come down

and are comforted by the fact

that what comes down must also go up

like any see-saw that works

in any children's playground.

See-saw (Koshur Qalam challenge Jan 1, 2022.) by Koshy AV

(edited version)

In the playground in the Museum

in Thiruvananthapuram

was my first see-saw

Then a rocking horse in Bal Bhavan

saw me see-saw

I loved sitting at one end

of the big one

watching the other go up

then running there quickly

getting on somehow

and watching the other - the previous, the first side, go up

Up and down, down and up

I did not know, playing alone

it was preparing me for life's vagaries

When it was a girl at the other end

I felt happy

We learn in minuscule

in childhood

for greater tasks

yaw like a ship on the sea

drunken, in the winds of time

and change

stagger to the tune of

what goes up must come down

comforted by the fact

that what comes down must also go up

like any good old see-saw that works

in any old or new children's playground.