What She Said

Before I laughed with him
_____nightly,

_____the slow waves beating
_____on his wide shores
_____and the palmyra
_____bringing forth heron-like flowers
_____near the waters,

my eyes were like the lotus
my arms had the grace of the bamboo
my forehead was mistaken for the moon.

_____But now.

--Maturai Eruttalan Centamputan