Once, in the hush of a silent room… I held a book, its pages soft with… each word a lamp, each line a song… and in its light, I wandered long. But one day, my hands set it aside…

As she wandered through the campus… A man whose presence stirred shado… An echo of cloudy memories she cou… She ran to catch him, but he vanis… Days and weeks passed in a fruitle…

I spread my wings slowly, a quiet… From the comfort of my smooth bed,… Life, a melody of love, a river of… Once a fairyland, my heart’s sacre… Then dawned the truth, a price to…

In Einstein’s world, where time a… Speed alters our perception, a tru… For as we move, time’s flow may be… A notion that mystifies in its cos… But can this concept stretch beyon…

The Journey not the End Ruwantissa Abeyratne Blooms that blossom and wither, Roadside gems, they choose to stay… Not in grand halls or lofty mansio…

Innocent, vulnerable, she stood, Surrounded by vultures, misunderst… Male intellectuals, on the rampage… The Campus rag, where her dreams… Clutching her bag, a lifeline of s…

Innocent, vulnerable, she stood, Surrounded by vultures, misunderst… Male intellectuals, on the rampage… The Campus rag, where her dreams… Clutching her bag, a lifeline of s…

In a garden once, a flower dwelled… Concealing emotions deep inside, Yet a bee sensed her hidden spell, And ventured in, with naught to hi… Within that perfumed, shadowed bow…

A world unseen, a quiet place, Where moments pass without a trace… A distant look, a silent stare, I reach for you, you’re hardly the… But in your eyes, a world resides,

In the realm of dreams, where wish… A tale of longing, in this poetic… A fragrance sweet, a breeze so coo… Why, my love, did you become a flo… To quench the thirst of this heart…

My Journey While I lived, I walked my path a… No one did I follow, my steps wer… Through trials and sorrow, in sile… Who came to witness the burdens I…

Ruwantissa Abeyratne Ever so often I venture through the house Into my son’s room There amidst the certificates on t…

The Savage and the Veil I stood before the mirror one day, stripped of the silk and woven lie… and met a stranger— wild-eyed, unshackled, nameless.

Are you the moon’s silver sigh, or the sun’s golden flame? You walk through my soul like a wh… your presence—light itself, withou… Your hair cascades like twilight’s…

Res Memorandae Ruwantissa Abeyratne Amid memory’s lantern, in shadows… I felt the ember of my breath take… As torrents of hope drenched my so…