Love Blooms
By Sameen Shakya

 

From the gravest depths of the sea, where
angels fight, unable to quite grasp
the mechanism of it: Love.

 

A four letter word forsaken
time and time again, after each heartbreak
leaves the heart colder. The angels watch as we

 

stumble into another affair again
disregarding the second verse. Jealous
of the human heart that can’t not be in love

 

while they, cold and wet, can all but watch
curiously with queries and quandaries
unanswered because their god favors us-

 

there is no other god but love.

 

Sameen Shakya is a poet from Nepal. His poems are published in Alternate Route, BOMBFIRE, Havik, WINK, and Teach Write, to name a few. Born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal, he moved to the USA in 2015 to pursue writing. He earned an Undergraduate Degree in Creative Writing from St Cloud State University and traveled the country for a couple of years to gain a more informal education. He returned to Kathmandu in 2022.