This journey
past old habits of entrenched inertia
took me beyond
mountains, lakes, fields and farms
where green, pink, purple, yellow, orange homes
stood in wilderness
like unopened gifts.
Past bridges
land fills
villages, towns and nothingness
towards the unknown
with strangers
to teach that..
no place is unknown
and no one a stranger
if we take the time
to leave ourselves behind
and travel beyond
what we know
to places that know us
and wait for us
to one day arrive and say
“finally we meet.”
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Reema Moudgil has been writing on art, theatre, cinema, music, gender issues, architecture and more in leading newspapers and magazines since 1994. Her first novel Perfect Eight ((http://www.flipkart.com/perfect-eight-9380032870/p/itmdf87fpkhszfkb?pid=9789380032870&_l=A0vO9n9FWsBsMJKAKw47rw–&_r=dyRavyz2qKxOF7Yuc )won her an award from the Public Relations Council of India in association with Bangalore University. She also edited Chicken Soup for Indian Woman’s Soul and runs unboxedwriters.com. She writes art catalogues and has scripted a commissioned documentary or two. She has exhibited her paintings in Bangalore and New York, taught media studies to post graduates and hosts a daily ghazal show Andaz-e-Bayan on Radio Falak.