Poems by
Uma Asopa

Legacy

a poem by Uma Asopa

My words are naked,
desire raw;
earth is my body
my emotion, sky.

They consummated
in my birth,
in my death
they will take me back.

Word is all I will leave behind.

Green leaves
will come every season
on trees that will grow
on dead soil.

Some birds, someday
will sing those words
to same earth
and same sky.