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295th Weekly Poetry Contest winner: The Old Steps leading to my Ancestral Home

by Fabiyas M V

After the wedding ceremony,
she walked up the steps,
hand in hand,
with specks of shyness.

My grandma,
even her home too,
disappeared in the time bin.
Only those concrete steps
remain.
Shrubs have sealed the footprints.
A kingfisher feather
and a broken snake eggshell
lie among the dried leaves.

Has her soul been recycled
and reinstalled in some infant
somewhere?
Or does she wake up
and climb these steps
in the dream-light?
These questions bear fanciful beauty.
But what kept her serene,
even when the death rattle echoed,
is her belief
that all will be gathered again.

First published in The Literary Hatchet

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