The House without your presence (Telugu Original “Nuvvu leni Illu” by Dr K.Geeta)

The house without your presence

                    English Translation: V.Vijaya Kumar Telugu Original : “Nuvvu leni Illu” by

Dr K.Geeta

The house without your presence
Sobered by evening
Ears stick out attentive to receive
When will be the garage opens
And when your footsteps audible from office
Now busy soothing the eyes

Though the whole day hurried to end
When we retired home at twilight
Every room without your presence
Went gloomy
Every wall without your voice
Gone muted and paled

Evening Coffee sipped without you
Turned into a cup in desk laid upside down
Evening walk without you
Became an unworn shoe
Nestled like a pup beneath the shoe stand

The cool winter breeze
sneaked early by five
Invaded everywhere
Trespassing doors behind me
Prevailed the soul with gloom

Like the flowers on withered creepers in the vase
Children with hanging heads homeward from school
Leaned on my shoulders either side
Exhausted by the evening chores

Body of mine stuck in sofa withered half
In the absence more than half of your support
The sound quietly sneaked out boldly
In absence of your tickings of alarm
Even after coming home that makes you run
For office meetings.

The computer desk
As if it knew his master is out of station
Silently kept the leave of absence under paper weight

The cat nestled in the warmth of oven
Sniffed those stale curries in fridge and shrank back
The steps unvacuumed
Gathering those footprints hurriedly
Retired for sleep lazily

All those things in the desks of your closet
Snoring randomly as if they haven’t ever slept

The body that clung you all around every moment
Busy counting the ages of your absence of touch

The chill cracked the bones whole night
Though tucked in blankets over blankets
In the absence of warmth of your hugs

In the house, absence of your presence
Grief only embraced me close
With the hand around my neck
Breaking into a song of unsolicited pang of love

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