Sometimes I feel that this madness just keeps on increasing. Like the background music of my life is building up to this great crescendo except that you cant tell if it’s gonna change back to a major scale after that, and if it does, maybe it will lapse back to the relative minor. Sometimes I want to run […]
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Lonely…
Loneliness spurts forth, Spilling over the brim Discontent bubbling underneath the surface. Hazy lines merging – cracked lines creeping closer. Quiet, its that calm now, Before the beginning of the battle – shamefacedly lost. Loneliness spurts forth In a room dancing with people… Heads flitting by, Limbs flailing past, Conversation thick – loneliness spurts forth. […]
Entrapment
He keeps himself busy. So he doesn’t have the time to keep checking the calendar. He has refused himself the pleasure of counting the hours since she left but he cannot seem to ignore days. He knows it’s a Monday on a work heavy day, a Friday when work closes sooner than usual and so […]
Alone…
I am in a crowd and yet alone. Looking around at people conversing, laughing, I wonder. Do they also feel the same way as I do? A friend shakes me from my stupor and asks, “Hey! All well?” The same answer. “Yes! Yes! “ But the eyes say something else. I recall Kaifi Azmi’s poem. […]
Love Lost…
It was a rainy day. I was waiting for my first lecture to begin in the classes I had joined for my entrance exam. In the nervousness of the first day, I realized I had reached too early and was the first one to arrive. The second person to arrive changed my life forever. He […]
A New Love
The winds carry you. To places far and not known yet. Where you will breathe the air I have not yet touched. Or have I? Where you will see sights I have not yet seen. Sounds I have not heard yet, and smells I have not breathed in. You will be away and you will […]
Release…
The living room vibrated with some unseen, leashed emotions. The moment he entered he could sense the shift in atmosphere. After a day well spent with his friends he was in a mood to watch some sports on TV, have some late dinner, check his emails and go to sleep. But the sudden tingling at […]
For Him…
To Love. To lose. And to never love again is a sickening feeling. She had trusted herself, built a wall around her nobody would penetrate, yet it had happened. Probably one sided as she did not know his feelings for her. He said he loved her ….as a friend. An afterthought she would have never […]
Finding Love..
Until we cross over to the other side, we all belong to that lost group of people that are looking for real love. The heart-wrenching, gut-moving, mind-numbing sense of true belonging, perhaps not unconditional, like the Creator has for the Created, but close nevertheless. The kind that wants to live forever because you found the […]
The Last Mile…
Time heals all wounds, it also wounds all heals. Patience fills the thin gap between cure and disease. Like a barbed wire, Time entangles the feet… Digging into the flesh. Biting the heels. It won’t let you run. Can we escape to redemption? Maybe. Time heals all wounds only if you break free from the shackles and run. Run […]
Alone In The City
Stories of starvation deaths that appear in newspapers usually emerge from severely malnourished, poorer parts of our country, places remote, where the PDS has all but failed. Not from cities. And so the story of the two Bahl sisters found in a starving, very disturbed state in their Noida home was shocking and also sounded terribly […]