Poem: Under the Martian Sky

Prisha Shashi Lekhak

My world,
Right here.

Under the martian sky;
Adorned with flowers,
Perched in the clouds

Piercing through
With its fluorescent hue
Tucked like diamonds
over the blue

Here darkness,
is another shade of
Home

Where daylight
Is rendered magic;
Mingled with swirling
Nostalgia

Herein I come undone
And drift along
With my Maroon mixed with black ink

Dancing along
To the tips of my toes,
For they’ll take me
To the lights
Of my evermore Tihar

And sway to the lullabies
The west wind echoes
Of melancholia

Here i dance
To the glint in your hair
Unannounced smiles,
of the poetic Fair
Hypnotizing,
Whatever is of me