Under soft yellow lights
By Chennakeshav Shenoy
Under soft yellow lights she lives
Unforgiving crimes from forgotten times
She carries the secret but never speaking
Wealth poverty goodness and evil
she is intimate with all
In light the time zooms by but in the careening darkness it can halt to a crawl
Under soft yellow lights
She makes love to them all
Some enjoy her gentle reticence some her fiery desire
She has made princes and paupers she stands unchanged
Draped in her soft yellow lights
