Shaleen Rakesh

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.

If we were to trap ourselves in a vintage red bottle screw the lid with a fishing net and plunge into the sea with fish and weeds and salt we would realise that the only message in the bottle is us the sky would burst the fishing net would snap and we would emerge free and ecstatic at last.

I have the right to choose I have the right of choice to do what I wish to do like two lines that cross across a surface can talk to each other so I listen but pay little attention to plans being designed for me.

I spend more time looking than I do speaking But I don't find much to say and it may be true that I give the impression of being lost.