Sharon Eappen

Have you seen how the wind lost its energy after an hour or how the trees sway no more? Have you seen how the only energy I can notice are those moving vehicles, the ones that smoke and cease to make the skies clear or overfeed the trees? Have you seen how all those clouds and smoke act as a wall between my lovers and me; the moon and the lovely stars? Or have you seen how darkness engulfing me in solitude could sometimes be my only solace? Have you seen anything, anything at all?                   Have you not wondered how the trees could wither in centuries but my body in just decades? Or have you not seen the mysterious beauty when a streetlight illuminates its boughs? Have you not felt a certain presence, when you stood there staring at it's branches? Have you not wanted to talk to it? Have you never felt it listen? Have you never seen anything, felt nothing at all? Or is it just me, having it all in my head, stan...