Adjacent flat is silent
today
reminding one of the
‘silence of the graveyard’.
It was the flat where
a ‘made for each other couple’
lived till the other day.
After spending months
as lovers they entered
into wed-lock just
two years ago.
Their glorious days
were those days when
the ‘two found’ only
the positive aspects in
each other’s life.
Outsiders were jealous
of them,
but not all outsiders, however.
Both of them were like
iron ores getting
attracted to a magnet.
Detached outsiders like
the saints of yore
they were the ones who
went thru the dark tunnel of life
they smiled at the two inseparables
better call them con-joined twins
getting drunk
with the wine of love, love and
and love only
both preferred to
name it eternal love.
Thus went on their days
and both developed
wings of fancy
flew together along
the sky of intimate love.
On an auspicious day
he tied the nuptial knot
around her neck
both started living
together purchasing a
flat in the suburbs.
For about five to
six months they moved
along like two eternal lovers
rather than as husband and wife.
In the first few
months they even lamented the delay
in getting married
talking to themselves ‘we should
have married earlier
how nice and charming
is our life.
With the time ticking by
days to months
months to year
the positive aspects gradually
gave way to negative aspects
occasional squabblings
to frequent squabblings,
war of words spilling
over the flat to
the neighbouring flats
each night was inaugurated with the
opening of a can of worms
the talks of divorce were overheard
repeatedly
this, the Lover’s Paradise turned into
an Aliens’ Hell’.
One day both decided to part ways
once and for all
and got legally separated.
The adjacent flat
is silent today
like the silence of the graveyard
with the lady living
alone in the flat.
Don’t know the whereabouts
of the man.
The graveyard silence
in the adjacent flat
is heart-aching though…
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