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by Vinita Agrawal

Vinita’s poem captures the lament of a heart that has been restrained by worldly constraints to realise love in its truest form.

Return me to the salted crystals embedded in earth
Release me into the winds of forbidden mirth

Take me to places that begin with your breath
From godforsaken sin, lead me to simplicity instead

From dark, noir views of heart’s debarred choices
Bestow me the tender light of joy’s exquisite voices

In return, take what you will from the depths of me
Else scatter me to the welcoming dust or unfathomable sea

From there I arose, there I will return
Eternally waiting with my lover to be one

Ethers reverberate with vibrations of wishes
Swimming with longing like airy golden fishes

What is to question, what is to decide?
On love’s augured journey, a true heart will suffice

Vinita is a Mumbai based writer and poet. Her poems have been published in Asiancha, Raedleaf Poetry , Wordweavers, OpenRoad Review, Constellations, The Fox Chase Review, Spark, The Taj Mahal Review, CLRI, SAARC Anthologies, Kritya.org, Touch- The Journal of healing, Museindia, Everydaypoets.com, Mahmag World Literature, The Criterion, The Brown Critique, Twenty20journal.com, Sketchbook, Poetry 24, Mandala and others which include several international anthologies. Her poem was nominated for the Best of the Net Awards 2011 by CLRI. She received a prize from MuseIndia in 2010. Her debut collection of poems titled Words Not Spoken published by Sampark/Brown Critique was released in November 2013. Her poem was awarded a prize in the Wordweavers contest 2013.

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