White-necked Crow on Coffee Tree

April 25, 2025

An Unending Dream
Like a moss coated
on the balconies of childhood…
The white-necked crow ,
who perches daily
on the branches
of coffee tree .
In Umma’s language
it’s a ‘town crow.’
my imagination has
wings larger than the crow’s.
Would the town crow
carry my message to “Waappa?
When Umma gave a tinkling laugh,
I asked it to tell him
to bring me a winking doll.
Ripening and withering,
the coffee berries change.
By the ages gone,
The crow no longer
rests on the branches.
And the winking doll
never reached my hands.

Sameera Fathima

Sameera is a Srilankan who lives in East London. She has a Diploma in teaching from the college of education in Sri Lanka and worked as a teacher in Sri Lanka. She started to write in the school days and could not continue writing as life changed. But still she believes that writing is her therapy for all her inarticulated feelings.

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