"I love tasting your mood in the evening tea"

The way you pour it all at once such that some of it slides down the edge of the cup and you don't wipe it off, when you are in a hurry.

The way you don't care to balance that extra quarter spoon of tea leaves or that extra milk, when something is bothering you.

And the way you take two minutes more than usual to simmer it, when you are happy and want the tea to be as perfect as your day.

Do you taste my mood in the way I slurp it too?

- Navita Jain