Becomings of a sea
A girl broke the soil and turned into sea
how, each had the same question like
feelings of hunger by empty tummies
what does she knows about motions
for she was held captive for thousand years
before birth of sun and moon and knew
nothing about axis and orbits
for she was cursed for a sin of a demon
who poured it on her pure insides
she desired see the world, so made waves
on her still waters. As she couldn't help
but cry thinking all she lost, salt got mixed
she was now the different kind than rivers
fountains and lakes. Her zeal to explore land
gave her wide expanse and she became
large more than almost shapes of all water bodies
she had everything she wanted yet what
pinched her tissues were her loneliness
she prayed to God for quick listen to her
one dày the fishes, corals, whales wrote
to her for their refuge
she imagined stars have turned their mouths
towards her and singing in choirs her favorite song
she happily agreed to be their habitat
as she loved her new life she decided
never to return to her old body
like it never existed like she desired forget
dark silences of her past she pressed
in her blooming waves and surf
Sea is a girl
who keeps her beauty in secrecy
any intruder coming to her close
quarters is handled well by her bodyguards
the squids , sharks , angry starfishes
to keep her space unencroached
she is unparalleled in water-spills and
tide-sounds. She keeps the skies inside her cresting chest
like wideness of world inhaled by damp reflections
Her desires to touch the stars become mist to hang
over her blue face like textureless canopy
she is just the tangible form of infinity
known to humankind with depthless depths
Purbasha Roy (she/her) is a writer from Jharkhand, India. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Logic(s), Strange Horizons, Pulp Literary Review, Acta Victoriana, Romantic Writers of America, and elsewhere. She is a Best of the Net Nominee and has attained second position in 8th Singapore Poetry Contest.
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