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Zero = One

  • Writer: Prithu Barnwal
    Prithu Barnwal
  • Jun 16, 2021
  • 2 min read

We, Threads from the same cloth came out same time different colors


We , look same, eat same , yet so unlike


God gave extra colors to my brother - extra layers he could see


He got sight in abundance - The sight , the curse all the same


When children, we all are princes and princesses in our world


Everyone wants the special gift - to be the next hero


All I say is practical - human life is no fairy tale


The ghosts captured his body


That is what my grandfather said


Father , mother made counter claims but the thought of losing him forever was a sight too disconsolate


They obliged - a powerful baba came


He tried to sweep away the darkness - his jhaadu filled our home with gas


My child brain thought of him releasing a special type of "All Out"


The mosquitos indeed went away , the special mosquitos did not


My brother was still the same - bruised and wounded by the same


Next was the famous Naga Baba


Scared on his entry, I caught a corner and stood there , fixated at my brother


There was another gas, though no jhaadu this time


He performed many rites - I stood by my mother's side


My brother seemed to respond to him - as if the soul/atma directly talked to him


The special mosquitos went away - it felt


The baba arrived like a god for the rescue


Not sure if it were the ghosts or the effect of the surroundings


Now, we same , everything same, we would see the same colors


I thought the straight road would go on and on


But the daily bridge collapsed post a few months


My brother crashed on his head


The ghosts returned


Babas came - Mosquitos vanished away but the special ones still there


The doctors said ," Schizophrenia"


Once I came back after three weeks - he told about making a girlfriend but he would not tell me


I teased him , got him to admit - He kissed a girl


I thought if this is a miracle


Our father told me that he did not step a foot outside in these weeks


I kissed ,he kissed - only one was real but the emotions were same


He never could understand difference between zero and one as one


Sometimes, I feel if I am the culprit - if I gave a ransom inside the womb to give his brains to me


If that is the case - Hey Shiva, please take my whole brain and install it in him.


Now, I am 25,have lived my time - let it be his time as he is the only sweet twin brother of mine.

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