DEATH Poem: The Pain, by Abdurahiman Noushad

The old shopkeeper from hometown died
Read the message from the hometown group
Another news from the group filled
With lots of birthdays and deaths
Hometown which is just a distant memory
The old man and his shop
just a wisp of that distant memory
Yet , still there is an agonizing pain
For some reason unknown

Maybe, it’s the faint familiarity
With the dead old man and his shop
where you went for like a 1000 times
during the time which is now a nostalgia
Or, Maybe it’s the pain from fear
of losing things that remind you of the good old days,
The very thing you find solace in times of need
The fear of loss of nostalgia
along With the people and the Town

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