A child on the sea shore<\/p>\n
had collected good lot of beautiful stones<\/p>\n
Some sea shells and some conks<\/p>\n
I wanted to trade a few<\/p>\n
And did not know what to offer<\/p>\n
In exchange,<\/p>\n
So I asked, will she give me the red one<\/p>\n
She said what will I offer<\/p>\n
I asked her choice<\/p>\n
And she asked my spectacles<\/p>\n
But why,<\/p>\n
did not she know<\/p>\n
She had beautiful eyes<\/p>\n
And I had weak eyes,<\/p>\n
Why will she need spectacles<\/p>\n
But then I understood, she wanted the look<\/p>\n
Of spectacles<\/p>\n
I asked he, if she wanted to look older<\/p>\n
Than her age,<\/p>\n
She smiled, may be, is wisdom a sign of <\/span>age<\/p>\n I wish I could tell her, it is not<\/p>\n We went to an optician<\/p>\n Requested for her\u00a0 plain glasses,<\/p>\n And by then I thought<\/p>\n <\/span>she would have forgotten about the red stone<\/p>\n but she had not<\/p>\n only that she offered all her stones now<\/p>\n and I had enjoyed so much her questions<\/p>\n Cynical comments and<\/p>\n the women like jumbled up relationships<\/p>\n between things,<\/p>\n unrelated things connected in ways<\/p>\n I was not used to,<\/p>\n I did not want trade to symbolize our exchange<\/p>\n But she would not have any of my emotional crap<\/p>\n One could give things<\/p>\n Yes, gift her things only at her terms<\/p>\n And I had to take the red stone<\/p>\n But also the beautiful green stone, shells<\/p>\n <\/span>And the rest<\/p>\n Why had every thing become so reasonable<\/p>\n Why had glasses look so good to her<\/p>\n Had I already taken away her innocence<\/p>\n By teaching her trade<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n A child on the sea shore had collected good lot of beautiful stones Some sea shells and some conks I wanted to trade a few And did not know what to offer In exchange, So I asked, will she give me the red one She said what will I offer I asked her choice And … <\/p>\n