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Little Things

I meant to tell you,
I have been restless for a while.
Perhaps, I shouldn't be telling you
or maybe I have to.
Ah! Confusion bleeds through my poetry
like mismatched flashes of a bizzare dream.

I keep forgetting little things,
spacing out with no sense of time
and not a care for what is going on
around me.

It has been a hustle lately,
dragging myself through the day.
I find
no sense of purpose
to go on etching thin lines
on this empty canvas.
It was so colourful, lively and beautiful when you were there.
Now, it's only mundane:
much like pulses and rice.

I meant to tell you,
I have realised,
some memories are better off
discarded,
forgotten like dead, fallen, wrinkled old leaves
that the autumn winds blow away
to be crushed by mercilessly marching feet
of people like you
and me.

I meant to tell you,
these are little things.

-Shakeel Ahmed Mazumder.
12th October,2019.
Guwahati.

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