Suitcaseful of Memories

As I left home I cried.

My tears flowed for

The three odd decades

I spent there;

For each moment of turning

That house into a home;

For dreams of permanence

Of love reciprocated

Of wishes fulfilled.

My tears swelled with memories

Of shared laughter,

Of joy of setting up house;

Of arguments and quarrels

Of coming and going

Of friends and foe

Now carried away

In twin suitcases

To be dumped carelessly.

Unstoppable tears

That ran in rivulets

Down exhausted cheeks

Let loose from a rock heart

Evidence of years of

Dammed up emotions

Behind closed eyelids

A kaleidoscope of thoughts

Past, present future

Colours mingling randomly.

And time passed with the flowing
Visible tears subsided
Deep within to etch
Ravines in splintered heart
With ghosts from life long past
Incarcerated.