I wasn’t born a poet, but your silence turned into verses in the pauses between your laughter I never meant to memorize your face— yet it lives behind every closed eyelid tender as the hush before a kiss.
You wore the rain like a sari of stars and when you looked back that one time I forgot my name. Your anklets were verses my heart dared not write— too sacred, too soft too much like something I'd ruin by touching.
I never knew love until it sat beside me on a red bicycle hair flying as if time could be outpaced by innocence.
I never wrote a line before you But now I write in the rhythm of your leaving And every rhyme I never learned now aches in the shape of you.
I wasn't a poet— not until you looked at me like I was worth remembering
And now when they ask me why the moon feels closer when I speak your name I only smile and whisper— "I am not a poet But oh beautiful one Ever since I saw you I have started writing poetry."