Living everyday isn't about love
Nor of mush... romance
Or humming 'Hai main mar hi jau'
From the latest Gen Z flick !

Living after the mid forties
Isn't about swooning in love!
It gets more about skin tightening
Belly flattening gruesome rituals!

Living at this stage
Is more about self....
Self love and self appreciation
And about a few who withstood this self!

Yet....there are days
Very few days...
A voice sweeps over
Soaked in smile, so smelling of love...

Nah this isn't love...
Pinch self to remind
The heartbreaks..the nonchalance
The engulfing vaccum...

Yet some days....
It drizzles without the rains
Dreams peak from long slumber
Ah it's just a day... You remind yourself....
This isn't really real...just a few stray moments...

Yet in these unreal moments
And a few days...
Drenched in a voice
Smelling of love
There's a life moving away...

Soma Bhattacharjee