Inheritance of Sky
By Mandavi Choudhary

They asked me
to wear the sky
without its vastness.

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To become blue enough
to soothe,
small enough
to possess.

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But the sky
has never belonged
to those
who measured it.

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She keeps
breaking into light,
undoing every border
stitched across her body.

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I have learned
from her grammar.

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Clouds do not apologise
for becoming storms.

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Horizons do not ask
where they may end.

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Neither will I.

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I was never made
to fit beneath the sky.

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I was made

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to inherit

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its impossible expanse.

Dr. Mandavi Choudhary is a poet, author, Jewellery Researcher, and Assistant Professor of English at the University of Delhi. Her interdisciplinary work explores the intersections of literature, material culture, the body, memory, and feminist expression. She is the author of I Burn, I Bloom and A Phoenix in the Making. Her poetry has received national and international recognition, including the Emily Dickinson Award and the Indian Literature Award.