RAJI WRITES

Here you are again My sometimes friend You came in the middle of the night I lay awake with you wrapped around my heart And there you stayed for a while. I dozed on and off with you as my constant companion And then as dawn broke You welled out of my eyes And burst from my lungs in sharp heaves Repeated silent screams through my open grimacing mouth As I tried to expel you With my breath (Quietly as my daughter slept) And yet, you stayed. Morning came The