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Thirty Years

Aditya Shanka

After hiding in a love story for thirty years,
they decided to walk away

Their love, a butterfly with fading shades
perching on a flower in its dry spell.

The girl decided to unlearn
how to cross a road

One of the first things that her
dad taught her

and it felt like removing a tether
that limited her wander to the sky

He claimed he is different,
though his first word was also mom

as he took baby steps on the parapet
of a high rise till he got it wrong–

And the day filled with the squeaky
music of baby shoes, one that was
lost and never found.

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