Showing posts with label Stagnant water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stagnant water. Show all posts

Friday, December 7, 2018

Stagnant...











When colours fade away...


Like the sound of a horse's gallop...


Distant... invisible... inaudible.


I hear you still


Inside my heart


As my own heartbeat.


But you want to leave...


Like the breath that leaves


My heart and vanishes in thin air.


And so I open up my hands


To let your fingers slip away...




Stagnant water I am...

And you a ship. 





And...


I cannot be your harbour.



(C) Ravinder Kaur 





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