Bright Lights

Shaleen Rakesh
Poets Unlimited
Published in
1 min readJan 19, 2017

Sometimes we want
our very souls
to be in motion
with everything colliding

Sometimes I want
everything to come
to a stop, including my body
on your skin

Sometimes I want to be
where I am
most in love
in the darkest night
when I am
more or less open
with more or less brightness.

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Shaleen Rakesh
Poets Unlimited

Poet, warrior and urban monk. dead-in-the-woods activist and daydreamer. I write on relationships, love, intimacy and loss