Serene Is She

[Sreyashi Mukherjee]

With a shimmering splendor, she shines on

The ocean lights up, the sands cool down

Their grains tickled and folded along

 

Being a silent witness

To the lovers’ embrace

She smiles and blesses them

She’d rather be nowhere else

 

But of course she has

History’s scars on her, intense

Yet from afar she radiates beauty

It has helped to keep that distance

 

And so she chooses

To listen to the rippling echo

To trace the baby turtle’s footprints

To dance with the lovers’ shadows

 

They may not notice her

But she’d rather be nowhere else

[Takoda]

This is cool.  I hear the last two lines as an intermittent chorus:  “she may not be noticed / but there's nowhere she’d rather be” as example ... and then it sings.  Thanks ...