My WhatsApp displayed, ??

“You deleted this message”

Fourteen times in fourteen boxes

Neatly huddled up

One below the other.

Green coloured coffins

Contain corpses of

my first thoughts,

obliterated by my second thoughts

 And even a  third.

 My molten memories flowed-

Your yellow winking emoji glowed, ?

Spitting a red hot heart that

Went missing in vagaries and

My mobile heart, ❤

rendered immobile…

You remember how in

white coloured boxes

filled with your misty fizz,

you searched for my

scorched tongue?

They lay hidden in the

heaviness of your “online” silences

But

suddenly, a ringtone beeps,

and I take a flight

after midnight,

to a virtual village

of our choice and  we

braid the earth and breed some love,

while still upon my screen

my WhatsApp displays,

fourteen green coffins of

“You deleted this message”!

                                      ~ Smitha M

                                        Palakkad, India