July 2021
Bio Note: I grew up in small towns of northern India and currently live in the city of Bengaluru. An engineer and management consultant by profession, I enjoy writing more. Through Verse Virtual I have made friends from across the world and it has been an extremely inspirational association. My poems have also appeared in Muddy River Poetry Review, Spillwords, and Sparks of Calliope.
Immortal
I would return to find that moon
We had believed would rise
Waiting under the night sky
Content with stars, some bright.
The neon lights flickered
Through coconut rows
Bioluminescence lined a rumbling ocean
Of suspicion below.
We chose an arduous afternoon then
Shimmering grains of sand waiting
In ocean for a century and more
For whispers to be heard
Bodies to be immortalized.
©2021 Abha Das Sarma
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