I am fine, everything is fine oh, I am doing great No, it’s been amazing ! – all lies, lies that sell too easy, because the world- too busy to spot the lines, beneath those eyes the dried trail of tears besides the lips, curved in a fake smile because the world- too busy in […]
Tag: poems
sunsets
As I sit here, the waves touching my feet, a kiss on the skin, then a retreat; Looking at the orange canvas I recall how my mother always told me not to click sunsets, whenever I showed her a sunset picture, she would go on and on about how she always believed and felt often […]
the park bench
She was in the park by seven anxiously waiting, hoping he would come early today, looking at the corner bench – their usual seat worried, would it be easy to leave all this behind and run away to a faraway world away from the memories that clawed to her heart, run away to somewhere they […]
About new years and hope
What is it about new years and hope? every year, as the last number (of a date) increments itself by one, our hearts are filled with joy. the change of just a number makes us feel closer to hope somehow, for it feels like an opportunity to restart and re-kick life; just as earth begins […]
Her hallucinations
A vision, in the swirls of smoke, A fantasy, of the freedom she longed, from saucers, pans and tightened hair-strands, A paradise, hidden beyond clutches of patriarchy.
Time
neither in what was, nor in what will be is where life is; but in this time between these fleeting moments one – here – now one here – gone here, life lives!
solace in specters
Sometimes on my way homeI take a detourand visit the haunted house of our memories;I try to spot the specterof a love that we once shared, unable to pick and removethorns from the nightmares that still visit me some nights,even after failed attempts of uninviting them,of un-wishing them;The haunted house is painted black,and the door […]
Winter
It’s a cold winter morning. On the porch, there she sits silently all wrapped up in woolens, her breath steaming up as it comes out of her mouth the cold around her seems to be warmer, warmer than her cold heart – a heart laced in ice at least the ice keeps glued together the […]
This new year I resolve
This new year I resolve to not wait for a new year when wanting to start something that I wanna do because that’s just me procrastinating again! not wait for a new year to start living a healthy life or have a healthy diet to finish the tasks once initiated to close chapters that have […]
An ode to courage
There are times in life when you feel aloneloosing even your shadow to the darkthe winds of life shake your foundationswaying you in all directions unsure, which gust might take you downunsure, of the direction in which might your grave openand assimilate all that’s left;You question all you believed in till nowyour rock shakes, your […]
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