Poems from shashank.v.rao.1
O Saraswati, seated on a swan
Lotus in hand, and clad in white
Mother of speech and verse,
I salute you in your voice.
Born in the palm...
In childhood, I was cut off from my family.Unable to speak in and on their terms,I reached for the tongue long lost to me.
In middle school...
I don't know what "empathy" is.
I don't know what "feelings" are.
I don't know what gives.
I read people and expression
The same way I...
I am multilingual,
A key to many doors,
Behind which the world's secrets lie.
To know more languages than
The average American
Is a...
Forever unto infinity
Upon this cosmic canvas
Is history etched into being.
The secrecy of truth
The emptiness of meaning
Shall be laid...