you rest easy - NaPoWriMo #20

to shruti krishnan, 
on her twenty-first birthday

you rest easy 
in hidden corners 
of obscure library shelves,
your footprints 
play with the dust -
disrupting and adorning, 
all at once. 
you rest easier
in reflections of your
many, many selves,
quiet passion, fierce silences,
bubbling pages in your diary
bursting at the seams,
half-smiled silliness,
half-charmed eyes.

you rest easier 
in stony silences -
silences made of
silver filigree thoughts and
bright colourful conversations.

you rest easiest 
in shared sparks of comfort -
dancing in and out of both our fingers -
pale yellow sunshine in yours,
and dark blue moonbeams in mine.

you rest easiest 
in staccato laughs 
and handwritten note.

you rest easiest
as my imaginary counsel,
for your voice is clearest
when it becomes 
the voice in my head.

happy birthday dumbass i love u