LOOK WHAT YOU DID
TO ME
-
Gopi
Kottoor (India)
There
are shadows of you here
Forever.
What did you do
With
all that light?
Why
did you turn them all
Into
night?
You
could have told me
Of
birds,
Why
they fly away in the middle of it all
Of
fruits that fall
So
their ripening did not mean a thing.
You
could have emptied all that in the pyre
Without
awakening
A
thing called desire
That
had the colour of our eyes
Gazing
at each other
Ah,
the secret glow of that fire
That
we now search in ember
Between
pain
And
never again
In
the rain, in the rain
Writing
our poems all night
By
the window pane.
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