उठो लाल अब आखें खोलो

Nostalgia! A simple poem. I never read it as a child but probably my mother did. She used to wake me up sometimes by reciting this poem. She did this jokingly even after I was 30...sometimes splashing my face with water when I would refuse to get up on lazy winter mornings!

She passed away 10 years ago. I saw this recently and was reminded of her. How cruel destiny seems sometimes.