My Last Stay*
25.10.2022
My Last stay with the shrunken house- Lady on rent
In Market area of Jalandhar cantt, Punjab
With vile as her true companion and shrewd maliciousness as her true identity
And violent outbursts of a vampire...
I stayed.
with the freshly painted, remodelled 1room house with much priced wallpaper
Somehow was so painful to my bio-mental set up,
It crashed.
Everything was intact. Every corner was organised.
But something whispered-
Nothing i find here
With which i can connect
& feel grounded, acclinatized
After a while,
And failed to operate normal.
Sleepless nights continued
With shaken, shrivelled, desected days, following.
Every fibre of the system was out of the place.
A Foreign feeling took to the root of Alienation.
Here in Kanan Vihar,
With another dishelved house lady whose heart breeds contempt, suspicion, fire, poison, machinations for me,
Again in an 1 roomed room arrangement,
closed-fisted or almost restricted to 1 day meal only ...
Whose walls have gone so old,
Whose malfunctioned toiletries,
No washing machine,
No water filter,
Have to go down to fetch water with lot of sarcasm
Like the last stay where the punjabi lady keeps on passing bitter remarks and demands to fetch water for her from far away source,
My time river has arrivef
Again in an one roomed arrangement
Where i can access the fridge with vile taunts...
With peeled Paints here and there, imaginary creatures keep crawling to my amusement
Like a fairytale has unfolded again...
My bio-rhythm breaks occasionally
And Kundalini ran down in utter shock to hide in unreachable caverns,
But keep climbing to Sahasrara
And reestablishes the bio-rhythm
As I see the signature of my father upon the foundation of this building
And a painstaking voice of someone knocks at my door asking for help and with namkeens and sweets as offering of a grateful heart who followed me and the same path I took to come to this earth
And somehow finds the thread to remember me
In long drainage of forgetfulness of a defunct mind.