Poetry by Avni Koppula: Luminaries

Art by Afreen Mann Majumdar

the sun sings in gold

and the moon listens in silver

pulling the ocean between them 

like a thread spun from devotion 

they have never known silence

only the soft hum 

of understanding 

and the way the light bends at sunset

the sun spills warmth

and the moon gathers it 

carries it gently across the sky

to fix it upon the clouds 

the stars know well the whispers 

of the dawn

two hands holding the sky together 

and if the moon is me

then you are the sun

and i have never known 

a love more steady than yours