A year.

Can you even fathom? A whole, entire year? Its been a year since the world last heard his voice, or felt his arrogant smirk crinkle up those tiny eyes. A year since the demand for drugs and alcohol went down. A year since someone called me 'meri jaan'. A year since I got a reply on whatsapp that made my heart skip a beat. A year since someone called me a nashedii for my 2 cigarettes a month. Its been a year since he left the miserable, dying earth. Did you notice that the earth stopped spinning for a little bit, or the hollow space in its entirety, or just the slight reduction in the babble of living things in which echoed the cracking of my iceberg heart? Did you notice the faint silence? Because I did.