Father Abraham mourns near the mortal remains of Sib who was killed in a fire incident in Kuwait, at the Cochin International Airport in Kochi, Friday, June 14, 2024. An IAF aircraft carrying the mortal remains of 45 Indians who died in building fire in Kuwait landed in Kochi at 10.30 a.m. on June 14.Photo: - PTI Father Abraham mourns near the mortal remains of Sib who was killed in a fire incident in Kuwait, at the Cochin International Airport in Kochi, Friday, June 14, 2024. An IAF aircraft carrying the mortal remains of 45 Indians who died in building fire in Kuwait landed in Kochi at 10.30 a.m. on June 14.Photo: - PTI
to the joyous thunder
of monsoon, to light
dancing one last time
in the vocabulary
of the sea,
to the salt breeze
praying in the mangroves,
the hum of the red-eyed
sun, the despair of hornbill
flooding the forests,
to a language spun
of twilight, the flame
dying at the foot of alstonia,
to the whistle of reeds
opening the spell of rain
they come home
my love, one last time.
Smitha Sehgal is a poet and legal professional serving in a Govt of India CPSE in Delhikabibe game