Abandoned Houses

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Through vivid imagery, this poem reflects on the fading memories of a childhood once filled with simple joys.

The shadows of the big pipal trees
fall across the crumbling balcony
of my abandoned ancestral home,
but the sun still lingers in the far corner.

There, I see a younger me,
barefoot on the earthen floor,
watching a spider’s web shimmer in the light.



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