To save my bum from getting kicked for the fake bravado I demonstrated
There you were
To kick on my bums for the studies I procrastinated
There you were
To join in the pun while everyone remonstrated
There you were
To take me out to the cricket ground only to keep wicket
There you were
To take me to movie in dilapidated hall on a third class ticket
There you were
To take me to the farms on a bicycle that squeaked
There you were
To drop me at the railway station on a Bullet that creaked
There you were
To wrestle with vocabulary or to wrestle with arms
There you were
To depress with drudgery or to delight with charms
There you were
To irradiate and irritate; to imitate and infuriate
There you were
To grow old and make more meaningless memories
There you are not….