Menaka's Choice

by Kavita Kané

Attaining gave a brief flush of power, but giving lent him a greater sense of controlling influence.

Rivers were like humans too, all sprung up from the same wellspring but each formed their own course,

You believe in the permanence of love despite the impermanence of time in your hold.

Eternity was not the end, it was the endless prolongation of the moment of love.