Know My Musings

Inspired by Stateira I, wife of Artaxerxes II King of Persia

Have you heard of Stateira

Behind her curtains?

What could be her musings?

Perhaps, she had no thoughts

About beauty without veil

But love without the person she sought

Is no better than a word

Meant to be discarded

From being engraved

Upon the jabs, even on the columns

Meant away from the fractals

And the arcades of Ecbatana

A stranger of its marbles and glazed stones

Undeserving to overpass the moats

To fill the capital and join the market’s song

Yet love is away from all these tragedies

And in times I hear your voice and know your joy

I know that love shall not fail that way