Wednesday 15 February 2023
Origami Rose
Tuesday 14 February 2023
I thought I will not think of you
It happens every year. I make many resolutions. I want to do some things and not do many things to make my life better. Every year ends up being the same after a few days. It feels like everything is out of control and I get wafted away in the turbulent flow of time. 'This year's a different thing, I’ll not think of you' , I affirm to myself every day, every morning as soon as I wake up to an army of alarms. I try not to think of you and your words. But I fail always, you have become a personification of all the negative things my mind says to me. I loved your articulateness and now it has become the ghost that haunts me. Sometimes, I manage to keep you away from thoughts only to be spooked by you in my dreams.
Thursday 26 May 2022
Dead Butterflies
They all are dead
Those butterflies
That fluttered
In their stomach.
What killed them -
Lack of flowers?
Pesky predators?
Climate change?
Colorful corpses
Decorate their gut
Decomposing desire
Into graves of grief.
Monday 24 May 2021
Vacation From Life
Thursday 4 March 2021
Moist Memories
Yesterday night, I cried myself to sleep
While I was drafting a response
To the letter that you sent
My response was quite long
But my translation
of feelings to words
somehow felt wrong
my fingers cramped
with the effort of writing
So my eyes started watering
to lubricate my fingers
to also dilute the ink
that was drying off in the pen
I stayed up as long as I could
not knowing when I fell asleep
I woke up only when I felt wet
and my bed was floating
In my room filled with water
It seems like my eyes did not stop
they kept pouring drop by drop
as I snored away in glory
all my books were floating in the water
along with my memories of you
while escaping a nasty slip
I frantically searched
for the letter, I was writing,
for the letter that you wrote
Only 4 moist blank pages were left
with ink faded away like my tears.
Monday 7 December 2020
Blind Justice
Wednesday 14 October 2020
Ew
..EW
I never realized how quickly they grew
When I started all felt good and new
There were many things I never knew
Now my whole universe is askew
When I piled up tasks, they seemed few
But they just multiplied as time flew
I don’t see a clear solution in my view
avalanche of expectations, I am a shrew
Every morning, hopes disappear like dew
With regrets I end my day with a phew
I have gobbled more than I can chew
I desperately wish to do everything anew
My distractions need to be put into curfew
To complete the pending things in my purview
All my skills and focus need to act as crew
To mend all the tears in thoughts with a sew.