Toilets like lovers

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             Image© Arthur Robins



Toilets like lovers

Some nice, clean, well- presented

Some horrible, dirty, disgusting

yet, you search for them 
in despair

almost everyday...

you sit there patiently

look around

vivid colours
patterned tiles
smells Jasmin

you dream,
murmur sweet melodies

forget the pains, 

Life is good & perfect

never feel like getting up

to go away.

Sometimes,
you enter

within seconds

the view of poop floating commodes

piss-smelling filthy scribbled walls

flies roaming around

make you nauseous

four walls watching fiercly

no space to move

unsafe doors, empty toilet rolls

you sweat & get panicked

impatient to run away...

You've no idea at all

until you step in
& close the door
in a hurry

You got no choice
no choice at all

but to stay

for two minutes,

for ten minutes, even more

to soothe

your desperate pains
on your way...

By Jahooli Devi