An Approach to Adjourned Affections
Frozen time traps hearts in a silent courtroom, love's case forever sealed.
Read more →
From ULR
Issue 5 – Human Rights
An Approach to Adjourned Affections
Frozen time traps hearts in a silent courtroom, love's case forever sealed.
February 10, 2026
The heart, a courtroom, where
affections are adjourned, sine die.
Postponed, deferred, delayed,
filed away in dusty folders
of memory, marked ‘pending’.
We are the litigants, waiting
for a hearing, a verdict, a sign.
We pace the corridors of time,
clutching our evidence, our briefs,
our tattered bits of hope.
The judge is absent, the jury
is out, the witnesses have gone
home. The clock on the wall
has stopped, its hands frozen
at the hour of departure.
We appeal, we object, we demand
a retrial, a change of venue,
a different ending. But the case
is closed, the file is sealed,
the gavel has fallen.
And we are left, with the silence,
the echo, the emptiness,
the adjourned affections,
waiting for a summons
that will never come.
📖
PART OF A COLLECTIONAn Approach to Adjourned Affections
View Full Collection →
Dr. Rebecca Vedavathy
Dr. Rebecca Vedavathy is an award-winning poet and academic from Bangalore, India. She works as Assistant Professor, French at a reputed college in Bangalore. She won the Poetry with Prakriti Contest in 2016 awarded by the Prakriti Foundation. Her poems have been shortlisted for the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize (2018), the Wordweaver’s Poetry Contest (2017) and the Glass House Poetry Contest (2020). She has been published by many national and international journals like Allegro Poetry Magazine, Mascara Literary Review, The Bangalore Review, Vayavya, The Sunflower Collective among others. She has been invited to read her work at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Hyderabad Literary Festival, Nazariya International Women’s Film Festival (Hyderabad), Centre for Indian Languages (Banaras), among others.