Gaze down at me every time I look up
Smile back at me when my eyes spill syrup
Always guide me when I’m lost in the dusk
Spare a home for me when the world is brusque
Have your craters always adorn you
Like jewels commend a newlywed’s value
Come in different shapes; I’ll croon the same tune
May it be crescent, half, or full moon
Oh and tell the twinkling orbs surrounding you
That I indeed adore them too
And forever remain the pearl of your ocean
For when this land becomes hell, I shall seek your heaven.
Riya Gupta
Riya Gupta is a fourteen-year-old who fancies reading, writing, singing, and songwriting. She has published a poetry book called, ‘Phantasmagoria—was it? I’m still the hostage of my dream’. She has written and composed many songs and uploaded some on SoundCloud, including her favourite: ‘Strayed, but pure’. Gupta is a passionate humanist. She has a loathing for patriarchy, sexism, and cruelty toward animals and mother earth. She aims to be successful enough to be able to make a change in this world.
