Skeletons In The Closet.. Check

By Suryalaxmi R. 

It is time I open my old closet again

It is time I check whether the skeletons are still there 

They may have walked away their own path

Since it’s been long time I haven’t checked

But all the time I have been thinking of them

Protecting them and hoping they are safe

Pretending that I have changed

And that I am okay

As if there was never the existence of those skeletons

But the more I tried to deny

The more troubled I was

Finally I am going to check again

My old closet which I had locked up before I turned on a new leaf

I opened the closet and groped in the darkness of secrecy

My hands pulled out … a dress !

A frock from my childhood or old self 

The past … Where are the skeletons ?

Did they walk away? 

I groped again and again in the deep

There they were … and where would they go..?

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