The Last Days

The last time I saw you alive was in a hospital, Lying unconscious on a crumpled bedsheet. You were breathing, I could see. Though the doctors said it was artificial, I felt relief with every rise and fall of your chest. Besides a constant beep from a monitor, There was an eerie silence in the…

SILENCE

Waking up in bed with no one around, Sink uncleaned and clothes lying on the ground, The cheesy pizza I ordered last night, Half-eaten, has now turned sticky and brown. No, my life isn’t ‘imbalanced’, There’s a comfort I have found in silence. A year has passed since I have been living alone, Following social…