October 2023
Bio Note: The optional theme 'Safely gathered in' holds so much. To me, it echoes my recent thoughts and attempts of being with myself. I hope writing around it will take me deeper into it.
Where Will the Waters Take Us
To rising redwoods
above the night-
to red maple
that finds a way
into lover’s diary.
Unto speech
rolled into the folds
of a naked tree-
unbundled
quest of a priest.
Will the waters take
us to my village,
a magical gate
hiding secrets lived by?
To a precipice of hoofs
obscuring the road-
not long ago
where we held the mist
to watch the droplets fly.
©2023 Abha Das Sarma
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