The Departure

Over the chatter of rain,
her vegetable shouts
are hardly heard by him.

The corner where the roof leaks
and corruption draws a perfect circle,
he finds his anorexic love
neatly packed in polyethene bags.

The window is missing a shattered pane
lost sometime last year,
he gathers the curtain into a ball to repel the storm
but rips the silk to shreds.

He’s gone in the stillness between the flash and the roar
that threaten to overwhelm her once more, 
she closes her eyes and the door.


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Date: 09/07/2017
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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July 18, 2017 at 8:58 AM
That last stanza, Tamal, is chillingly good. You have such a way with words.... One extended metaphor from beginning to end, and it is a desperate feeling that speaks to me.
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August 25, 2017 at 7:34 AM
Thanks for reading, Darren. :)
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