Friday, September 19, 2025

Rustic Moments, Brown and Kind (free verse)

 


These are the quiet comforts

random, rustic, brown,

like warm wood floors

and twilight tea,

the kind that settle softly in the soul.


Moments of stillness,

sitting and wondering

what if I had turned left,

chose differently,

would life have been lighter?


A strange breakfast,

jam and cream on paratha,

makes peace with the choices

I carry like stones.


Books, found randomly,

wrapped in the smell of chocolate

stirs something old and soft,

a sepia-tinted joy

I thought I lost.


A cookie shake,

sweet as a secret,

melts the weight of days

into nothingness

just sweetness,

then silence.


A spontaneous plan

with someone I love

erases the taste

of all the sour yesterdays.


A difficult drama on screen

pulls me out of my own

its fiction,

a balm for real-life bruises.


And the fairy lights

tiny suns in jars

each one a quiet blessing

sparked by the very choices

I doubted most.

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Rustic Moments, Brown and Kind (free verse)

  These are the quiet comforts random, rustic, brown, like warm wood floors and twilight tea, the kind that settle softly in the soul. Momen...