Solitude it is
Incessant silence
Save the starling’s wing flap
Iridescent sheen
Filling this new world
Of buses, trees, childhood smells
Mixing it with the old me
The ghost of past self
Who once loved
Something
Or thought she did
Someone
Husband? Partner?
The forbidden boyfriend?
Yes, my one and only eternal friend
He is life itself
Left behind in that decay
But it is his fertilizer
So he must stay
She is such beauty
I seldom forget
Her kindness with a sweet pitying
I never knew why she left
“I thought you had a crush on me”
I said
Stupidly
Back in the days when I was all vanity
And unforgivably cheeky
How beaten and humble I have become
I mumble, I chant, I hum
I pray to both Shiva and Ganesh
Destroyer, Creator and Obstacle Remover
My peripatetic days are over
There is no tragedy, just a sigh
And her and her and him and…..
Where are you, my so-called friends?
Was I merely a means to an end?
Oh how quickly it will all end!
Silly, silly children
With their silly nonsense games
A lifetime away from true and sobering knowledge
But it matters not
My defence has been restored
I am protected once again!
There’s no better way to build a wall
Than to make it out of an ocean
