You Are My Dawn

By Aditya Nandkumar Garde

You are my dawn,

the sun is only witness,

Before you, every morning

was just a rumour of light.

The sky learns to blush,

only when your eyes awaken,

and the wind remembers,

its name when it passes by you.

You are my first breath of warmth,

after a thousand nights of frost,

the sun merely follows,

the trail you’ve already lit in me.

Even if the world forgets,

how mornings are born,

I’ll still rise through your silence,

for you are my dawn,

and the sun… merely a witness.

By Aditya Nandkumar Garde