This week’s Guest Writer is Gopika N, a talented young poet who has appeared in this slot a number of times. Here is her latest stunning poem:
I am bidding a farewell,
Waving my palms and
Not letting the sluggish sting
Deluge from my mirrors.
Mirrors, that hold a
thousand reflections of my soul.
As I am spending my last
Few moments with you,
I am constantly hit by the
Songs of pain that
We sang in melancholy;
Prayers we made, for not
Parting, so fragile were those.
Your love were my words,
And you, the poetry.
Your love were my roads,
And you, my destination.
The pain that fills me,
My heart, it’s growing
To my veins and spine;
To my veins which bore
Glittery dreams, they are shattered,
They are burnt.
Oh! My tongue did taste
The bitterness of your departure,
The twinge has filled my
Gut and my intestines.
“Dear soul, you were mighty,
But now you are gone.”
And hence my soul did
Dissolve into the world
Of utter silence, it’s aphotic.
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Esther Chilton 
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