✨ The House That Remembers ✨
The house that remembers…
not one, but three —
each stitched into me
through shiftings and postings,
through people,
through friendships
that turned into lifelong echoes.
It was a house of struggles,
yet warm like an unseen lamp.
It watched my mother rise at 4,
radio crackling to life
as if dawn had a voice.
Her hands kneaded dreams
between tiffins and steam,
while walls learned
what silent strength looks like.
A dust-free world,
gleaming like discipline —
I still chase that calm,
that perfection she carried
like fragrance on her palms.
Weekends smelled like heaven:
slow-cooked love,
spices humming lullabies,
and cakes that travelled
beyond our windows —
sweet messengers of a mother’s love
to every neighbouring door.
Books were my quiet universe,
poems my only confession,
a pen my forever friend
lying open on the table —
ink waiting
like destiny in a cocoon.
That house must still remember
my sighs,
my fears,
my silent victories,
my soft celebrations…
Perhaps my woven words
still float like unseen ribbons
in its air,
settled between bricks
like memories that never dust away.
Plants she nurtured
still whisper her name —
roots don’t forget
the hands that sang to them.
Can time return what it once carried?
Can childhood knock twice?
How I long to walk back,
touch the doorknob of yesterday,
and begin again —
not to rewrite,
but to weave
one more story
in the house
that remembers.