To read the previous installment: LOVE LETTER (2) I often wonder, what life had in store for me, had I not met you. What orifices and crevices of her being would she show me. I can’t help but wonder whether you and I were ink on paper, a story penned down by destiny, or whether […]
The road to the stars: THE CONSTELLATION SERIES When I drew the roads to my heartAnd marked the paths,With the shining constellationsπροσπαθούν να βρουν πυξίδα(Trying to find Pyxis) I found that you,Had already made yourself at homeEven though, I had barred my bonesAnd torn all muscled pathwaysTo stop you from reaching it. When my breathFelt […]
This was a piece I had done on request of my school newspaper’s editor for our Independence Day Issue that went beyond the borders, not only of the country but of time as well. Ms. Shazia Singh, leant heavily upon her walking stick, her daughter under her arm as she stumbled over the threshold of […]
A journey in every sense of the word. I’m putting this up now, because it was an important period of my life. It represents more than just a road trip. This is a tribute to all of us who undertook the journey together. बावरा मन देखने चला एक सपनाMarch 26th 2016 – April 6th 2016 8 […]
‘a homesickness for a home you can never return to or never was’ Your eyes were a salve, A soothing touch Of ice On skin of fire. A blaze Uncontrollable, Distrust. Anger. Jealousy. Until, I found a hearth To call home. A home that was the essence of you and me. I miss: The laughter […]
Did you know?If you used those sharpened knives,To cut trianglesOut of my skinThe muscle, sinew and limbs,You could create a pyramidOf unbreakable stone. Did you know?That if you used a pointed compass,To find my northAnd the celestial oceans that lay thereAnd drew circles around meTo strand me there,I would never leave. Did you know?That the […]
In wake of recent events, I thought I needed to write about what’s been going on around the world and profess my grief in the best way I can. Here’s praying that we can heal and live safe still… I had been ravaged. Scars form ravines on body, scorch marks have become adornments to a […]
To read the previous installment: LOVE LETTER Didn’t you know? That you were annoying, that you made terrible jokes and awful puns. Didn’t you know? That no matter how much you pretended to be indifferent, you could never really hide the tiny things that showed you loved me. The way you smiled at me when you […]
Your eyes, painted pictures, on the canvas, that was my body. Drawing out lines of laughter, frowning wrinkles and greying hairs with invisible paint. You drew out a map of my heart. The arteries and veins, created roads and bridges, upon which your name ran and danced. The blood flowing through the rivers of my […]
They could never seem to capture my silence, It was a thick rigidity that filled the air, Heavy. Dense. They heard my music even though I could not sing A yet shapeless, Formless thing. And they spun me Tighter and tighter, Pulling me tautly Against their calloused hands Giving my amorphous body Shape. Delicate, meandering […]