Closure

How important is it to give closure?

Did you understand then? Why didn't you give one?

I went back a thousand times at our meeting destination

Did not even find our fragrance last time

I laughed, I cried then—

do humans have enough words to define their emotions?

Language always fails in such moments

I examined the documents containing memories of us

Tears did moisten the remaining dried fossils

as if digging them might get easier

Hope is a good thing, no? Is it so?

Now, portions of mine make occasional visits there

as if they're refusing to forget the address

You know naa—accepting the truth is never painful,

the resistance to accept it hurts the most

I'm still waiting for the closure

and you still accuse me of not giving one

Yes! I intentionally did not give the same.

To whom I consider as ones

shaping my 'idea of existence, identity and consciousness'

the corollary of which defines my 'idea of self'

I don't give them closure.

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10.08.2026 | Rahul Khandelwal