by Shalom Galve Aranas
Time is teeming within the walls
of your room in Italy
where I find you
again and again
almost in tears
as we hear the bells
of the churches
tolling simultaneously
In a burst
of sunrise
and birds alighting from
the shiny,
wet cobbled stones.
I sigh a relief
you still belong
to my world
where I intend to keep
you each day
until the day
we shall finally
meet for real,
my friend.
Shalom Galve Aranas is a freelance writer published in Enchanted Conversations, Stereo Stories, St. Andrews College, and elsewhere. She is a loving, single mother of two. Illustrated by Ramabhadran S., who is a 19-year-old artist based in Kerala’s Thalassery. He is a student of National Institute of Fashion Technology.
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