Saturday, January 12, 2013

Under soft yellow lights

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