Reshma Ramesh - Letters To The unknown(3)

In the palaces where curtains made from pearls
Shone with light white like milk
Humbled sun read the lines
Written by the depths of the dark
Night less night rusted away
Into the fume less fire
The wind hid in the petals
In the temple of love
With ashes of the evenings
And silence of ages
On the stones carved
With chisels and hammer
With songs and tunes
The grand procession with
Thousand elephants
A hundred trumpets
And ten conchs blew in the air
And when the princess on her knees
Hair open flying west
Frantically dug with her nails
On the earth wet with her tears
She found in silver wrapped
Letters, letters by the beloved
Addressed
Letters to the unknown

Reshma Ramesh

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