SAFETY VALVE

Loneliness like a python
About to wind around
Her crushing her to death.
Each night brings her
Loneliness and fear
Snatches away her sleep.
Hatred, anger, frustration
Not to anyone, but herself
She wakes up from the bed
And switches on the light
Walks to and fro
With hands folded across the chest
Memories like a pendulum
Moves moves back and forth, always restless
Happiness, delight, ecstasy,
Anger, sorrows, tears
Pendulum never stops.
She moves to the window
Outside the moon and stars.
Hidden behind the dark clouds
Like her mind
Sometimes she feels like
Opening the door
Running down the stairs
And rush to the
Crowded city
A thought in a split second
Such a thought is crucial in one’s life
Nishant still not come
With his friends he
Always moves along.
Never can he sit idle
Whiling away time.
It is his safety - valve
Saaju’s room still bathed in light
She came to the door
As expected
Scribbling something in the
Light of table lamp.
His safety- valve.
Everyone finds out a
Safety-valve
She saw a child
In front of her
She jumps, dances, kicks
Her legs and throws her
Hands in the vacuum
Plays pranks
Never sits idle
Immersed in her delightful images of the child
Closing the doors and windows she jumped,
Danced, sang
Her hands thrown into the air and played pranks
And giggling
Her hairs disheveled
She could not hear
Nishant and Sanju knocking at the door
Calling amma, amma, amma
She fell tired on the bed……..
Her
Pent-up energies
exhausted.
Nishant and Sanju
Looked at each other
Frighteningly
Question marks flashing in their eyes
Her safety-valve