Attachment Poem by Ratnakar Rout

A dilapidated house
With crumbled roof
And damaged walls
Is standing abandoned
For a long time
Growth of parasite plants
All around
Cockroaches, snakes, spiders
Insects of different species
Live on peacefully there
Uncared, unattended
It ruins
As every one is
Crippled with the age.

With a broken heart
I am shifted to a new house
Marbled, glaze tiles fitted
With shiny surface
But I don’t feel safe
As with the old house
My memories linger.

A sense of insecurity prevails
I was acclimatized
To the whole things around me
Is not it difficult to
Breed root again
Over a unknown place
Can I term it obsolete?
Can I shatter the relation?
Can I abandon the house?
With whom I had age-old relation.
Can I cease the attachment?
Till the swan flies away
From the temple of flesh
Leaving the apartment
Can I snatch away myself?
Till my mortal remains
Consign to ashes.

I cannot
And nobody can
Shiver relation with old one
For all time to come
When you quit
Make souls apart
Where you live for years
The same way you feel
When you depart from the beloved.