you lit the fire and you waited for it to hold us captive in it’s orange kindle, to burn into our skin till it could taste the relinquish of our muscles, to seep into our dreams and paint them the colour of nightmares, to lift us up and crush beneath us all our recklessness, to … Continue reading
The sailor opened his ravaged cream canvas The harbor stood impedingly far from sight Beyond the fading orange gleam and approaching purple haze Of the drowning winter skyline, Upon whom the hallowed, salt- crusted, iron gallows dangle The corpses of an unforgiven past hung like the autumn bloom. Where men and women not confined to … Continue reading
// Your bones are falling to the sound of gravity The beats are rising. Scars are like leaves scattered on the ground Crunching as you try to let go of your wounds and walk. Your head is between two walls, ready to get crushed You don’t even have a place to hang it down in … Continue reading
“Chotu, ek full, ek cutting” Abhinav said as soon as we saw the first chai ki tapri. Chai was his pehla pyar. Every morning, the first sentence I hear since the past six years is “Neetu chai dena.” We sat on the red and white plastic chairs of the tapri, our daughter sitting on the … Continue reading
walking past the same pavement every morning I like stealing short gazes at you and on some days by the look in your eyes I can say how you love flowers the shade of crimson and white on sundays, that would perfectly decor your table and add hues to your coffee, I remember how you … Continue reading
They are living more independently than any time in recent memory Because that turns out to be a good coping strategy But why cope? Why not live and let live? 3 rooms in one house, still divided at what cost? Working, such a time waste said one, But I had a good time, what … Continue reading
Shrouded by glacial cold The shadows clinging to my fingers Like roots intertwined in soil They don’t let me Live I can’t breathe. This darkness It’s pushing me down It’s tearing me up I can’t move I can’t breathe. Silently steaming Like a candle snuffed out I suffer in smouldering pain Choking from my own … Continue reading
