ECHOES OF A SILENT HOME

In a house where echoes linger long,

Silence wraps the walls in a heavy song.

Laughter dances in the streets outside,

While shadows whisper where joy once bide.

Once, the air was filled with light,

Abi(lash)'s laughter, a star in the night.

Now, the rooms are empty, time stands still,

Memories linger, haunting at will.

Firecrackers burst like distant dreams,

But here, only silence, or so it seems.

No friends, no family, just echoes and sighs,

A heart heavy with what once filled the skies.

The walls bear witness to a love once bright,

Now dimmed in the stillness, consumed by the night.

Loneliness settles like dust on the floor,

A ghost of a life that was once so much more.

We wait for the dawn, for the warmth to return,

For laughter to spark in the hearts that still yearn.

But until that day, we stand in the gloom,

In a house once alive, now a shadowed room.

-M. ILANKUMARAN