Tag: #loveyoudad
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Published: My dad, the Pied Piper
My poem, ‘ My dad, the Pied Piper’ was published on 26th November 2021, on my dad’s first death anniversary by Spillword Press. It was very kind of them to publish the poem on the very date. I wrote the poem a month earlier and sent it to them informing them about the death anniversary […]
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And then pa?
I stand watching you While you fight for your life Your breathing slow, each breath slower than the last I hear the machines beeping, an urgency And then there is silence, they beep no more I see you sleeping Like you’ve dozed off like you used to, before, when we were young while telling a […]
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Jargons
They said they’d let you go ‘Discharge,’ was the word they used I thought it meant you were coming home You did; just not how I thought you would I’m looking for answers Trying to fill the blank spaces There are too many- Unanswered questions, jargons For ‘closure,’ I tell them I need to understand […]
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Daddy’s little girl
When she could stay with you she decided not to A list of ‘valid’ reasons she gave – No better place, save The home for the aged, she said The one, where you felt caged She repeated it oft Her voice tender and soft You listened Your eyes glistened She said it was tough […]
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I need to talk
A hollow feeling A silence gnawing An emptiness A loneliness I need to talk- But to who? The lift man perhaps, who wishes me- On my way out at the break of dawn, The one who presses ‘G’ Lost in his thoughts, his eyes half closed Up and down he goes all day Inside […]