Brew Country (poem)

Brew Country

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We overlooked love songs

In the age to love. 

We nurtured dreams of a job

Of a different world

Where cries went for others

And gentle whispers were about how to get there.

We spoke of our past

We thought of a common future

We conspired to forget the present.

We ate biscuits and drank milky tea

Our present, this present, this living moment of sunlight and breeze

Needs those biscuits

Dipped in the memories of the days

When we spoke of the past

And dreamt  of a future.

Our past is now present and future.

A big slice of life went by

The sun and the breeze make it alive.

We have friends for company

And memories of milky tea that brewed feelings

We thought they were plans

 --- Madhavan N (c), 2020