kumamdavidson

[kumamdavidson]

🌸🌸🌸How do couples go old? Do they forgive each other or feign absent-mindedness? how habitually love had defeated them! how he did not smell of her anymore! how she could not bring the sun to set in a cup of red tea. perhaps they silently bartered secrets in the shadow of the night after tucking the children in and decided to exchange their wounds. perhaps the next morning she left to look for another lover he started brewing his own sunset, less sweet more dark when the children sniffed the otherness in their mother she simply said, "must be from your father" he simply crooned, "love heals all" gulping the newspaper. i have often wondered if one feels pity for the other like looking at the mirror one day frail fingers touching the slight roughness near the eyes and thinking of grey promises fallen with autumn leaves or have their wrinkles come to an understanding with the fate they have been tied to? perhaps they caress and thank each other for teaching their children what they know best like how I learn to disappoint from father and how to live with it from mother will they ever see eye to eye when the mustard of the slanting sun touches the frayed ends of their winters or argue over whom the cold should bury first?🌸🌸� ............ ............ 📷 @j.delgrossophotography Prose @linthoi_ningthoujam