Sayonara

By Madhavi Sepuri Karri

I hear the sun whisper to me

Failing again to convince me

Of the mercy of the night

Where I see only menace

Rapidly approach

Eerie in its eagerness

In the beat of its waning heart

I hear only the language of loss

I wince as I turn away

And the countdown to the course begins

I clutch a handful of the light

To my heaving heart

And whisper back

Arrivederci

By Madhavi Sepuri Karri