For me You can only be dark, deep, beautiful
Seductive like the midnight sky
Which moves further away
Yet hugs me closer
With each glance of mine
You, my Death
I stumbled into my fate knowing
Bits of legends about you
My hunger for knowing you
Getting deeper the older I got
But things move at your pace not mine
You disregarded the measured
glass full of my teenaged blood
I tried to tempt you with
Pushed me back with more force
Than the waves
Eventually to that final wet sleep
In the unplumbed Sea
Was this maturityÂ
That has slowly come upon me
That I wait impatiently for you
My own Death?
You were never diminishing
Life for me
Never organisms in my body
Doctors did not have names for
You were never the lack of anything
My darlingÂ
You are an anthem
A song of gratitude Â
For the Love I got in tons
From him, silver haired person
I no longer know the sex of
Nor the depth
Just like that Ocean depth
I seek As my shroud, my coverlet Â
* Thiruvathira Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi is the 12th Princess of the erstwhile royal family of Travancore.
