Setting rays are giggling me and the western sun is waking me,
‘Stop it yaar… I want to sleep’
Oh no! It’s time to work,
Yanking my formal clothes, I rushed for some fresh shower.
Passing beside the Imli tree,
Listening to my fast footsteps - Chamgadhads are rising up.
Stealing some Imli fruits and hiding them inside my pant pockets,
I opened my cabin door.
The office was in dead silence as my team went to the night party,
I tasted one Imli fruit.
I traversed to my ancestral home,
Dadi was in the courtyard front and scolding me to get inside.
Grabbing Imli from my mouth, she warned me of ‘Dilruba’-
The Chudail who lives in our Imli tree.
Dadi shares the legend to me-
“She transforms to Chamgadhad as she is the Queen of Bats”.
She only comes to us –
When we either call her or take her favourite stuff.
As she likes Imli most,
She will come and start eating us after sitting on our little heads.
When the gust opened my window panes,
I dropped the Imli in a terror fearing whether she has come.
*Chamgadhad - Bat
*Imli - Tamarind
*Dadi - Grandmother
*Chudail - Mythical/Legendary creature resembling a woman
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