I always told myself
to be like the sky at night
try to keep
as much of myself in shadow
to allow light slowly
through stacks of tiny windows
in hours
in weeks
in months
but never all at once
to never be the sun
that no one can look at
to be a fire
which can be looked at, and felt.
Official Website and Blog for Shaleen Rakesh, an indie author based in Dehradun, India. Shaleen is a writer and recursive observer of the shifting Himalayan landscape, whose work interrogates the friction between geologic time and the fragile architecture of human memory. Deeply rooted in the ecological and psychological terrain of the Doon Valley, his prose functions as a diagnostic for the Anthropocene—charting the rain of ash that defines modern loss.
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