DOWN TO EARTH BUT STILL ABOVE YOU (Poem)

DOWN TO EARTH BUT STILL ABOVE YOU

– Manasa Reddy Chichili

 

We are always above you

We walk on the same soul as you, yet our gaze is higher.

This is life’s endless chase-

not for happiness alone but for goals.

We carry a dream,

we hold a vision,

we live with fear,

and still we raise.

In this moment

we ask for neither more nor less.

Contentment keeps us grounded, but ambition

lifts us above.

We search and search,

and what we seek is you.

Who are you?

There is only you.

 

My Love

Thinking of you

Eating for you

Taking care of myself

Even when I don’t want to

You fill my dreams

Enchant them with your presence

I feel you throb in my womb

Growing everyday

My love

Please come out safe

And healthy

 

Standing Alone

I was a daughter

I was a wife

I was a mother

And now I’m a grandmother

A woman I’ve been

But looking back

Only now do I realize

I’ve always stood alone

 

EVENING AUTUMN RAIN

Evening autumn rain, light drizzling,

Sitting by the river, enjoying the cool breeze,

A lovely view, a pleasant mind,

So many thoughts in my mind.

I wrote them one by one on paper,

It became like a book, though it wasn’t a book,

It was the heart of nature,

About every flower, every leaf, colorful birds,

Teaching their own tales,

Tied by strings of fate.

 

**IN FLOODS**

 

I opened my eyes slowly.

I lay on the wet sand.

The place was full of mesh and dirt, with a bad smell.

I felt shivers, with constant drizzling.

Slowly, I sat up and observed my surroundings — I was in a new place.

Slowly, I realized I had lost my hometown.

I was stuck in the floods.

I observed around me — so many dead bodies.

Smashed boats, dead fishes, animals, things.

Now I started crying so much — I lost my family, friends, everything.

My boat drowned in the floods. I lost everybody.

Now what am I?

**WHO AM I?**

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