For Sweet Vibha

Your beautiful name 

it's first full glory to these eyes

summoned pikake, a sweetness

floating on a temperate ocean breeze,

and a sunset, a thousand amorous

brushstrokes in an endless sky.

Your beautiful name

recalled another time,

another heart, splintered 

from love and loss, mourning

a home, no longer hers, no longer

sanctuary, a heritage severed 

and cast into the waters.