Nothing raises waves now,
Inside me, I mean
Something surely seems to have quieted
Don’t know how, but
Waves are not high and violent
They… the waves
I noticed
Had been getting smaller and weaker
Until… one day
They couldn’t be noticed
Now I don’t see any movement
Even in the far off horizon
My stormy ocean now has stabilized
The surface has become flat
It looks like…
Like a desert of water
Without dunes
No grass, shrubs or trees
Yet, one in a while
A wave of breeze arrives
And tries to shake the ocean
Wake it, make it talk, play
Excite it
Or at least look excited
Breeze wants ocean to make waves
Become same again
But… after trying for a while
She tires herself
Feeling helpless
She turns away
She doesn’t like my ocean’s disinterest
But the ocean doesn’t feel bad
That she is feeling bad
He gets thoughtful though
Breeze is wind, air
She can move,
Travel the world over
She could find another ocean
May be…
Shutting his eyes he thinks
Let me be me

Marine Drive, Mumbai
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