Absence

TSL Napowrimo 29

Dev Mishra

Absence

The bookcase is still there empty

Her books have disappeared 

So many hours reading aloud

The Lord of the Rings trilogy

Took us a year to go trough

What fun we had with the riddles

Singing the songs

Tripping on strange sounding names

So many discussions on 

What was going to happen next

Who was our favourite character

Our bed time ritual was a stretched affair

One more chapter she would plead

I was only too happy to oblige

All those years gone

 In the flick of a page

Later still even as a teenager

We would read a chapter each

During a rainy afternoon

It amused me 

How she took our latest volume

And put it in her bookcase

I stare at the empty space on the shelves.

Lucette C. Bailliet 

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