Prathibha Nandakumar - Forbidden 10

I shop for him

And gift him the stars
the moon and the constellation

He complains
I spend too much
on inessentials

Hakim Sanai once said
When you arrive at the sea
You do not talk of streams.

Prathibha Nandakumar

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