Lost In Time, Echoes In Silence

She forgot to gargle her smile.

Looking through the window,

The canvas was so quiet; the wind

Has forgotten its path. The autumn

Leaves paled, lifeless, promenaded 

As the foliage painted forays to be 

Inimitable, hurtling the bounteous. 

The night still sniveling for the lost 

Smile, her gelasin nipped by life.

In solitude, she stayed for years

With no purpose to live. Neighbours

Moved to the town; she grasps the 

Sunset from downtown, looking

Into the firmament, eye locked on

The Stars. Losing her parents in 

The accident, her tears have dried, 

Cut off from the world. She laughed 

Once; now she remains tacit, fragile, 

Recollecting the reminiscences.

The empty fields are vast, and the houses

Are sans life, with none to say a word,

Silence misted in the weather, fading

Without words, still smiling. A dilapidated 

Edifice yearns to be cared for, dust sweeping

The boundaries. The last sojourn greeted

Her with a sonorous song; she dated her 

Smile one last time with her tears.

By Orbindu Ganga

From: India

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