Fragile Homes

Wrote this sometime back. It was in here saved as a draft. Am posting it now to actually update the blog. Reading it again, the poem does sound dreary but come to think of it, it is more to do with changes that we somehow come to accept and how life just goes on......... 



How fragile are our homes 
They can crack from the inside 
They can break from the outside. 
We raise our loved ones here
We welcome our guests into it 
We hope our secrets stay within it
But always, there is a one fine day 
When the first cracks appear. 
They make us sad, they make us fight
We don’t recognize ourselves 
And then the breakdown arrives. 
The unrecognizable is the new way of life 
And we carry on like before 
inside our fragile homes.........

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