‘See we aren’t leaving anything out, <br />check once more to be sure’ <br />she said with a nagging doubt, <br />‘we’re going to come back no more <br />once behind us we close the door’. <br /> <br />The hassles had made her tense <br />Moving out was trouble immense <br />I said to soothe her nerve ‘be assured dear, <br />We would leave nothing here’. <br /> <br />Still for her peace I went in <br />To make sure nothing lay within <br />And what I got was a jolting shock <br />On the wall still hung our bedroom clock! <br /> <br />She fumed and blurted on my face <br />‘I always knew you’re too careless, <br />thank god I goaded you for another look <br />precious things might be lying in some nook’. <br /> <br />I went in not to seek anymore things <br />But for the spent moments still fluttering wings <br />Smell our joys and sorrows hanging in the air <br />Of the times living as a tenant here!<br /><br />Pradip Chattopadhyay<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tenant/
