Come
I said
and the sky was shy
but so was I
yet he came
fitting his formlessness
into the window frame
he wriggled in
picking up the coffee mug
he nodded
‘you are a busybody.
I have been around
for long enough
You never noticed’
I looked down
guilt and shame
writ large
He smiled gently
‘Stay with me,
in the business of living
don’t forget to live’
the aroma of coffee
filled our nostrils
and we sat with silence
Sky ,Silence, Sreelekha.