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    The colour of my blood
    was never red
    You chose to jump in
    Red sari and all and it turned this hue
    There was all that heavenly gunk on You

    Which naturally
    got washed off
    Into my blood stream
    Which imperfect human beings
    In their urge to label everything neatly
    call cancer.

    My black love
    Only I know the ecstasy
    of You bathing within me.

    Lakshmi Bayi

    Thiruvathira Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi was born the XII Princess of the erstwhile royal family of Travancore.