India, Aug. 23 -- There is someone familiar in the mirrorAgeing so swiftly subtlyI never noticed the passage of TimeBut there is a stranger in my soulSomeone I no longer wishTo share a space with.

The skies are gray and wetWith rain falling down swiftlyHow will my multicoloured SoulSurvive the sweep upto the indigo spaceWhere the starsHold conversations over immortality?

Thiruvathira Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi is the 12th Princess of the erstwhile royal family of Travancore.

Published by HT Digital Content Services with permission from The Sunday Guardian....