Shabnam Samuel
The Panchgani Pen
Published in
Nov 21, 2020

My Mother’s Perfume

My Mother’s Perfume

Wafts gently out with a sense of doom

I peek into her room

She gazes at the mirror

While I feel the terror

That perfume, that Ma Griffe

Has to me always smelt of grief

The spraying of the mist

Tells me that this is it

Leaving me behind

To question who I am

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