Hairy Mess

Hairy Mess

Lately, life’s been a hairy mess!

I ask for wealth and fortune,

but to the one sitting up there, sipping on his morning tea, in noon,

gives me generational balding, and thinks he’s granted a big fat yes!

I am praying and hoping,

oiling and hoping,

sometimes doing both simultaneously and hoping,

that something’s gotta work to make it long lasting.

Now, we have made it a game,

finding strands of hair,

and guessing it belongs to which name.

Now that all males in my house have gone bald, the game doesn’t seem fair.

It’s not all bad.

Still a pretty good pay day for my barber!

Mom and the “Kapda Dukaan Bhaiya Jio 2” still find me pretty,

so yeah, maybe the last many rejections were all actually them and not me, as they said.

I wish, “do not judge a book by its cover”,

applied to me.

I know it’s not a great book as well,

but atleast it’s better than what they see!

I have deduced,

that the mess is not the hair. (I know, a stupidly confusing and ironic title in that case!)

Maybe it’s what is underneath.

A head full of hints and ideas, maybe real, but nothing confirmed.

The flip side is my personality.

Now in that case, I’d rather blame my hair.

Where else would you find a mix of Harry Potter trivia and inappropriate jokes,

not the people with thick hair, I say. Hopefully not! Please let me just have something to my identity.

A nerd, who’s bit overweight with some leftover Soan Papdi weight,

with no hair and habit of over-talking.

What could go wrong?

To the “it’s not you, it’s me”, I say, let them keep rolling!

Now, I know a lot of you would say,

don’t think this way, it’s not how it is.

But these are the exact things we think but don’t say,

and having said it all, I’d still want to go back to living in denial.

Anyways, had to write something in English,

for the “हिन्दी नहीं आती इसलिए नहीं पढ़ा” group of pathetic friends.

So, what can I say, I am just a lanky writer,

who just wanted to answer the impossible question, “Kisi ko pataa kyu nahi leta?”

And that, ladies and men, is why having no hair is a hairy mess!