furniture
there's no meaning in holding power , when your words can not afford it, staying up late till you reach home , you curse me to ruin your fancy life, trust me, i had served you the favourite wine but you dodged me . even neighbours have stopped knocking at our doors in the evening, even cradles in our backyard stopped dreaming to play with a toddler soon, even clergy of this town stopped blessing you to save purity of my prayers. look at my state now, i've fossilized myself into a kind of decaying furniture of our home, over which you place your torn clothes, your unread books, your black tea cups , your old, used posts, and everything i gave while serving you but you proclaimed, "stop being mean now!" i smell you in the dust and smoke, whirling in the room , you hear me in the cries and echoes reverberating around, we still sit across six feet apart to dine in the greige coloured hall, so, decayed ...