Childhood Memoirs

Written by Asish Sridhar

Edited by Nishtha

Illustrated by Parina Ramchandani

My dad brought from work a printed sheet,

XLR8, Diamond Head, Four Arms and Stinkfly,

The time used to fly by.

As I coloured in, they started to transform as I vibed to the beat.

Let’s go back in time and have a look-see,

Time to jog back your memory

By Summer, it was time to binge

Excited you pick up the call,

It's time for some basketball.

Hitting sixes in our apartment pitches.

Marco Polo and water polo and sword fights

Some activities from day till night.

Mariokart, Nintendo land and COD

Cops and robbers, poggers

Did you feel the cringe?

Don’t forget, keep being wanted, owned and pwned.

Nigahiga, Annoying Orange, Smosh and Fred,

For this poem, comes back from the dead.

Beyblade, Nerf and fidget spinners

Pogo, Cartoon network, animax, Jettix

and some other winners.

This was our childhood before Amazon Prime and Netflix.

Downstairs in disguises,

Suddenly, a threat arises.

Someone shouts and points, whole new surprises

And we’re off to deal with another crisis,

Off to save the world.