It takes Two to Tango!

“Listen, I don’t really understand why you always try to race with me.”

“Oh yeah? Says the one who himself is trying to beat me for the past 25 years!”

“No I’m not!”

“Yes you are!”

“No… listen, why don’t we just forget all these competitions and stay together peacefully like we did last night?”

“You know what? I felt the same last night, but you shocked me in the morning.”

“Dude! It was you who started racing…”

“And you were there chasing me all the time…”

“That’s just to maintain the balance.”

“Balance? For whom?”

One of my feet looked up at me, “For this big guy, the one we have been carrying for so many years.”

It was getting late for office, I had to run to catch the metro.

The other foot whispered, “Here we go again!”

To Whom It May Concern!

School had finished a few hours back.

But he was waiting in front of the school gate, hoping mom will come to take him home.

It was getting late, his feet hurt.

He couldn't wait in school, the gatekeepers and boys were laughing at him.

Like they always do.

What's taking her so long? He thought.

Maybe, she is busy cooking something special for me.

Or perhaps she is on her way, let's wait for a few more minutes.

There's no one he can ask to drop him home.

Besides, he still remembers what his mother told him the day when he went to school all alone.

“Never talk to strangers. Never.”

Today he is a teacher of the same school.

But mom is nowhere in his life.