Mindless

So that’s what you think?

How long have you been thinking so?

A day? A month? A year? An Eternity?

Your smile is something …

I could never interpret!

What do you say?

I cannot hear properly these days…

I don’t remember what happened…

They say some sort of accident

Feeble…I feel on and off…

Sorry I digressed…

What were you saying?

You do not think of that?

Then why have you come back?

I remember the last time you came to me…

It was raining.

Hard, unabashed and feverish

First time… we spoke the whole night.

Incessant.

See now this bewildering cough…

Doesn’t let me sleep these days.

Quite like you…

Each time I asked you to sleep…

you would refute…

Ah the memories…

They always behave like an errant kid

Pulling me to a world that is not there.

So tell me…how has life been?

Your smile says it has been good.

Why can’t I hear you?

I think there’s some problem with the air…

You’ve also grown old…but not tattered.

You still look so refreshing

Just like Shiuli…in an autumnal dawn…

My throat is drying…

Would you pass me the glass…?

Yea...right that one…

I know you do not think of that…

I have also stopped bothering

Only at times when I sleep…

It comes back…sudden…uncalled for..

Just like you….

They tell me you are not what I think you are…

You are just a counselor…

I know…yes…it is ridiculous

I quietly laugh at them…

I am still a human being…not a vegetable…

And I know your breath…your vibration...you’ve stopped coming...

But I’ve never stopped hoping.