Page 19 - E-BOOK KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA SANGATHAN RANCHI REGION

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We are in our open desert.

Now, houseless

And carrying just the things

we need. Made of dust.

life enters us from water,

Earth and microbe too

because we’re borderless. Our

bodies bare and woven by this

across nations, guide

and laws, like leaves.

a girdle, strong

vines, maybe even

a crown, since Easter comes.

Yet- a hand of thorns

Hard pressed in, though

Protective of the shrub’s

Soft colour, its labours.

May your love be like

a prickle, adding to

itself, unadorned

and joined in multiples.