the house whispers

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On the dark moonlit night

He stands alone smoking his cigarette

Blowing smoke up into the night sky

He feels confident to hunt the demons

The house on opposite road

People say they hear laughter and party at night

By the time they walk nearer to watch

There are lights but no sound or music or party

It is just a house with big compound

Left alone the family members all migrated

The man returns to find what's all about

Alone in the dark moonlit night

When his watch chimes past midnight

He switches on all the lights in the house

For a while he sees nothing on the walls

Then slowly he sees images appear......

The ghosts of his past walk forward

“You can't keep us here

We have to go where you go

This is our rights which you promised

Now look at us; we are stucked in this house!”

“It is for your own good

In this house you will stay alive

You can't go out and do what you please

You will wake up the midnight hunters

I made deals with them

Years ago that we can live here

Within the compound of this house

You have to stay for a long time”

“But you left us

We thought you had abandoned our lives

So we made noises and lights blinking

In the nights to show the neighbours”

“It is better to stay behind the scene

It is much better to stay alive.........

You have to live within the limitations

I guess we all are in this circumstance”