Alopecia

Scarcely surprising when receiving an occasional jolt

In the sea of troubles, these are pretty rife

But when rattled by a fiery thunderbolt

Paralyzed you lie, coming to terms with life

So did I when I stood before the ruddy mirror

Combing, with the comb smoothly skating on the rink

When the black leaves residing on my head started to wither

Gently dropping on the sink, the realization began to sink

Abruptly stopped the humming

Of heart rending chartbusters

Horror in my eyes began brimming

A clarion call rang in my heart - "Stop it before it festers"

On the top left corner, not so far from the temple

A white patch of skin shone conspicuous

I connected the dots with the leaves that crumple

Regards to my looks, no doubt I had been a shade presumptuous

Since the inception of adulthood

I braved probes and audits of the hair

The gravity of parental examinations, I hardly understood

I threw caution to the winds, without a care

I ignored the pieces of advices

And the secrets so arcane

To avert, at any cost, the looming crisis

As I restart the game of honing the mane

I ignored the daily tablet of iron and zinc,

The weekly dab of shampoo and hardly oiled

I thought I still remained in the pink

Till today morning, when with horror I recoiled

I resisted the diet rich in fiber

Frugivorous intake I chose to eschew

Hardly surprising in the age of cyber

Decisions now left painfully to rue

Pizzas, burgers and fries embellished

The daily menu, copiously washed down

By Pepsi, Coke and the rot equally relished

Besides indulging to rectangular bars coloured brown

All along the cans of juices and A2, B-protein milk

Lay under-consumed in a corner of the fridge

As the eyes carefully sieved out the dairy milk silk

The conscience didn’t relent, heart hardly did budge

Lack of vitamins now slowly take effect

Aided and abetted by lack of sleep and stressed

Hours in front of magnetic screens, constitute colossal defects

As uprisings of hair fall need to be repressed

For the first time, the messages I brutally ignore,

Lie meaningfully open from Dr. Batra, the tyrant

Encouraging pictures of a balding head before

And not so balding post an extortionate hair transplant

I sit down and pen a long shopping list

Shampoos, Oils, creams, Conditioners, Hair gels

Vitamin Tablets, fibrous foods and the like to give you the gist

Before it is too late, I set off the alarm bells

To tackle the onset of a receding hairline

I will go to any friggin length

As my goals are ready, to achieve before Twenty Nine

Protect my hair, albeit, by just a hair's breadth