Chennai by Sahana Mira
today, I am the last passenger
that’s stranded at an empty railway station,
I am the plucked heart
resembled that of a pretty hibiscus from a neighbourhood recklessly thrown away
while getting back home,
I am the mailbox that’s never opened,
I am a cluster of words that’s abandoned,
maybe marked
“unread” after quietly reading.
I am the tray of cupcakes with
wrath and fury and teaspoon
of tears and aches.
All the old lovers- the ones that
called me by pet names,
the ones that