The night’s a complete washout
The eyes can’t hold the ocean
Flooding the parched soil
And does its own thing
with the mascara, the eyeliner
And the whittled down eyeshadow
looks a ghostly galleon
tossing on the inky waters
rudderless, drifting, lost
And I am a specter to behold
I see DiCaprio and Winslet at the bow
They must have imagined a tomorrow
That’s when I wake up to a dwindled dawn
The blinds filter only a frail ray
crouching in corners almost wilting
feebly asking for a lift me up
and I shudder
But I’ll use all my love
to color this anorexic morninglight
and make it look ruddier
Image courtesy: Pixabay
Vishnupriya is a bilingual writer of poetry, essays, flash and short fiction. She has published several poems, short stories and essays in multiple North American and Indian magazines, periodicals, webzines, portals, and blogs, including her own. She is the proud recipient of the Gayatri Gamarsh Memorial Award for Literary Excellence in 2019. She has dabbled in broadcasting, voice-overs for documentary films, and script writing for varied events.
