Kidnapping you for a day, away
From the dailiness, of duties
I walk with you outward, outward
Into a brewery of chamomile
I disentangle my roman locks
From the twists and turns of me
My own encounters, I walk with you
deliberately, kidnapping you for a day
I walk with you, Sanah, side by side
You who withstood, every stomping
Raging encounter, a witch hunt
Along fault-lines of seismic paths
We dance under elder trees, afflicted
Fruits and seeds fall, a gushing oeuvre
An insatiable feast of perseverance
Standing still, I hold your hand
You, Mansi, retaught me, lessons
of possibilities, proof of being
Wise alongside being a lover
Guiding each other to make
Recipes in tender stirring pots
Of unhurried, unspoken ways
Brewed into a cauldron of yarrow
Dusk settles in, I wrap my shawl, its
Paisley patterns tumbling, stumbling
I walk home, a residue lingers in the air
I hear a rumbling, the clouds pass, pause
You, your sounds are my stories, my reason
Kashiana 