Grandfather

Droplets of rain

Thunder and screams

Something in me was insane

Thinking what could it be

What could happen today

Misery just Nay

A dewy smell, wrapping my nose

Warning me, as if to say

Your senses today will be enraged.

The leafs and the trees,

The sky and the breeze

The clouds heavy and sagging-

As if threatening to tear

What could’ve happened,

Today?

Searching for my keys,

To the door of mysteries

Quietness, screamed.

Enveloping me

In its sheet,

It felt cold,

frighteningly familiarly

Cold.

It just hung in the air,

As I walked up the stairs

To the faces of my parents,

Ones I have never seen before

Just what could've happened!

Today.

Their salty tears,

Ran across their cheeks,

Smearing my thoughts,

Ever so fraught

The voices in me grew..

Louder.

Angrier.

What could've happened today?

Death slapped me, across my face

You had to realize,

It said.

I'm mighty, I’m dread!

It slapped me across my face

I am the one you forgot,

But didn't you hear?

I don't know what's time,

Whose young whose old

I only know mere names

And crimes I shall acclaim

Who?! I screamed

My lungs aching

My heart quivering

And when it felt like as if

the whole world might’ve just collapsed

A silent tear

Slowly sliced my cheek

Pure agony

Is what I feel.

Grandfather,

What could’ve happened…

Today?