How I Met Your Mother

With a twist

With undone eyebrows

and swollen eyelids,

I drag my blanket up

For yet another round of sleep!

She’s there lying beside…

Watching me sink into my bed

To the right of her side.

“Oh no, not again!

Beauty sleep is all fine,

Empty stomach is not!

So, it’s high time, let’s dine…”

Momos is her go-to meal,

A pizza here and there.

Cheese is what sticks us together

Even on days when

We don’t care!

And when it’s been long,

My hair all messy,

She drags me out with her pick-up line —

“Come babe, let’s click a selfie!”

Several years down the line,

When she’ll have got little kids

I’m gonna tell them a story —

“It was in the summer of 2019

I was walking with my dreams

Tucked inside a folder :

Bumped into a girl with glasses,

Cheeks chubby and thin eyelashes.

Strange was the land for me,

She knew it well before —

“The one who talked to me hasn’t turned up yet,

How about us sharing the room?”

She suddenly did implore.

She sounded earnest

And I gave in.

Nodding my head,

I can still say,

I’m glad I didn’t hunt for another;

Hygiene freaks that we are —

From broom-mates to room-mates

That’s how I met your mother!”

NV©