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I shall let it be ....

By MUKTA KAMPLIKAR

I will think of you when I see out in the distant water

- those ships hidden behind the far-off island...

I will think of you when there is an unexpected downpour - thunders from nowhere
I will think of you with care…

When I see a burst of wildflowers in an unlikely place

I will think of your face

When I see flying birds getting lost behind a cloud

or when I suddenly laugh out aloud
I will think of you when a mountain whose other side I haven’t seen will make me wonder

of what it could be like

...but I won’t go on that hike to see

I shall just let it be ...

Let the other side be the other side
I shall just wait to be surprised -

all over again

(Of Freedom and Fairytales | Mukta | 2021)

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