Indifference

When dimly lit WhatsApp screens that once hosted
Late night conversations and unsaid confessions

Now make your eyes droop at a loss of words
And you struggle to salvage a lost momentum

Fits of anger and floods of ugly words
In what was once raging wars of texts

Now become disenchanted graveyards
Of lukewarm hi’s and meaningless how are you’s

Good nights come early
And good mornings every other day

And then to blatant wishes and forward messages
Just on special occasions like birthdays and Christmas

As though some ceremonial obligation

When everything reduces to just hearts and likes
On conversations and pictures

And you stop caring to know them
Beyond what they dare to show

It’s poetic when love turns to hate
Because the thought of them haunts you occasionally

But what happens when love turns to indifference?