Caren Mascarenhas
In maple skies
With a million dreams
And the city lights
With silenced screams
In velvety skies
With a heart full of hope
And damask roses
With promises unkept and broke
In violaceous skies
With stars streaming of souls
And the world is asleep
Whilst you dream alone
Changing colours in the hurricane of emotions
Setting apart the wild, free and young.
Painting a picture of a different kind
Natural filters with a stroke of light
And a gust of zephyr floating in your mind
In a thousand colours the sky shall speak
One amongst them is different, one amongst them is yours to keep
This work has been published in Beetle Magazine's July 2020 Issue
Illustration by Dhanashree Pimputkar