My love was never written, anywhere, any day.My love was never spoken, in any honest way.No one has ever heard it, not even for a while.My love. Love is born within the heart,Yet no one ever felt its flame.I never offered it to anyone,Nor bound my soul to any name.As passing years have slipped away,All…
I am alone, lost in the deep forest.The stranger’s roar shatters the silence—It is fierce, it is terrifying.There is no place to run,No refuge to hide.Where are my others? The colony is not yet formed,Only fear has taken shape.Shadows twist into strange illusions,And the air trembles with a dreadful roar.Am I to be prey, caught…
The sky is thundering,midnight splits with lightning’s crack.I stand beneath a lonely streetlamp,its pale glow spilling over me.As always—this is my place,this is my profession. A stranger comes, his eyes weighing me.He asks the price,I answer plain.He scoffs, says it is too high,and bargains as if my body were cloth in a market stall. I…
The mighty rains are pouring down.The Menik Ganga swells around.To Kataragama,The monsoon season now has come.The Kavadi dancers fill the shrine.Haro Hara, Haro Hara. Clouds collide and break apart,Lightning splits the darkened sky.This is the dwelling of the Six-Faced Lord on high.The monsoon season now has come.In Panama and Kumana, peacocks dance and proudly cry.Haro…
O River of the Sky, tell me now,Reveal the true line of the Sinhala kings somehow.Declare that long before Great King Mahāsammata came,This land was our inheritance, our ancestral claim. Beyond our own solar system’s light,To Akaniṭṭha Brahma Realm shining bright,If any living being dwells so far away,Our shelter once embraced them on a distant…