After the Funeral

The town lost its street maps, new plots of land appeared, houses were built where just yesterday there had been none. Her world seemed relocated, changed, as if it had been redrawn. They had not shared their likes or interests they had not even shared an equitable life, and at times had pawned and reclaimed each other, negotiations and currency always a part of an unwritten deal. Now she understood how landscapes can change minds see from their own windows through different lenses. She recalled with late regret that each of them had not surrendered, they coexisted in the same place but a locality riddled with mirages, scenes they mind-painted with unseeing eyes.