Break-shadow-theatre

You and me

dancing together

Our steps .. in rhythm with each other

Our hands understand

Our minds sing together

We walk, we skip, we jump, we fly, we soar

You thrust.. I parry

I move ..you respond

We are locked in time

And lost too

The mind stops tracking details

Rhythm

Reprise

Resonance

And suddenly we stop

Enough

You have to go

You leave

You look back, your eyes promise..”I will return”

I come home

I wait

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

Days

I look at the watch

I stare out of the window

My ears hear the door

My heart in is my hands

I am smiling

I wait

It’s night

The phone pinging

”Do this.. do that”

Essentials creeping, my moments. fading

I text

”Where are you? What plans?”

You ping

I have to have dinner with this friend

See a movie with a buddy

Have to meet a colleague

Don’t wait up

Gulp

Yes.. of course

I put my heart back in it shell

The darn thing takes time to fit in after it’s been opened

Never mind

It has learnt over the years

The unemotional ones live for the moment

They enter your life

and leave…some other moment in time

Leaving behind.. silence

And a disfigured heart

 

Nandini Das Ghoshal is the co-founder of Insights & More, a consumer insights boutique based out of Singapore. A Economics graduate and MBA by training, she has worn several hats in her career – as a marketeer, a consultant, a case writer and now she follows her passion of combining entrepreneurship with studying consumers at a deeper level for better business decisions. She loves to write – mostly related to her work but also on current trends and issues. She is also a proud mother of two.

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