Once more I’ve come to the door,
scored a photo, asked the mystery behind-
“What is it that keeps pulling me in?”
The numbers on the woodwork, hand-painted,
bleed a lot, and I wait
as if its wound would heal, the address would
instill a jiffy etched in air my a capricious feather.
Knock on the skull; if I have ever here
as a resident, as the one behind,
that I had been unlocked into infinity.
My father, all gone, whispers
to my mother, all gone, that I have grown to be
nothing they imagine, but it matters no longer.
Words and picture
Kushal Poddar
Kushal Poddar lives in Kolkata, India
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