A home for the heartless

Strangers are walking
All over the space
That I so lovingly built
Inch by loving inch

Minutes, hours and days of dreams
And soap water and scrubbing
And cleaning, folding and smoothing
And filling with love and colour

I’m standing on the outside,
Clutching a bittersweet memory
While inside, the revelers debate the idea of home
A home I created that has no room for me anymore

What would the heartless know about home?
But perhaps they do.
It takes one to talk about it.
And another completely, to build what I did

A home for the heartless.

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About IdeaSmith
IdeaSmith is the online avatar of Ramya Pandyan. Writer. Pop artist. Compulsive list-maker. Nostalgia addict. Board game enthusiast. Allergy Aunty. We're all in there somewhere.

5 Responses to A home for the heartless

  1. rakhia begum says:

    very nice , too good !!!!!

  2. A home I created that has no room for me anymore – Jeesuz ! Don’t put me into such precarious situations…..

  3. Aayushi says:

    Superbly written.

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