tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53014983299175478912024-02-08T21:28:36.059+05:30sakuraa collection of written memories.Avanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319498387136152384noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301498329917547891.post-38666949441654305152019-09-09T10:25:00.004+05:302019-09-09T10:26:14.968+05:30Amber<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">In the enormity of lived experiences, there must exist unexplored, tempting timelines. Timelines where I don't have to do the things I do daily to stay bright, bright, bright. Places where my poetry isn't repetition, isn't a revulsion towards my current identities. I fear confronting myself through a medium as public as the poems I create. Somehow, that particular expression feels tainted, as if there exists a disparity between emotion, audience, erudition. For, I confess, my writing is necessarily to someone; it demands an audience, singular or otherwise. Maybe that's why I increasingly gravitate towards prose- it is easier to hide hurt amidst a jargon of ideas I tried so hard to combine. My mind is unsupportive- it moves on train tracks of numbing singularity: the same path traced over and over, tirelessly. But here, in this form, I throw together the four disparate tracks that the engine painstakingly chugs over, confident that in the search of meaning, they'll gain contexts and intersectionalities that I did not put there.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I love the word "over". Catastrophic and absolute and yet so, so repetitive. It builds and builds layers upon itself; a glorified pile up of the same things, tortured and maimed into new interpretations.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I remember beginning a poem- my one true "grand epic"- about women who saw people as colours, not humans. It was a struggle, for how could I convince the "viewer" to believe, to believe, that the colours and their connotations were never meant to be the expected, the probable, the predictable; they were meant to be subjective experiences for the one colouring people into compartments. For I'd caved in to presumptive tendencies myself. My character in the narrative, I had surmised, would be the only one that would always be yellow. Yellow's a good, happy thing to align myself with.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And in a perverse way, I still do align with its forms. The story is long forgotten and dismissed, the writer too assured in the symbolic significance given by popular perception to ever see it any other way. So she- so I- still rage glaringly yellow. Murky in spots, even; splattered by the desire to appropriate the lived experiences of others for myself. There are pieces that have torn napkins and photographs and tickets and bookmarks decoupaged onto them; they do a petty job at camouflaging the bilious, nauseating yellow underneath. I feel poetic, though, so maybe I'll call it a bright amber, instead.</span></div>
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Avanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319498387136152384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301498329917547891.post-40454333391036547962019-08-17T13:33:00.003+05:302019-08-17T13:33:38.963+05:30Unboxing Her/You<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They wouldn’t let me flaunt you </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In front of the neighbors,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You know. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Like a childhood painting brimming</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">With unabashed love, </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You were far too intimate to exist</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Within the ordered symmetry of our home.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They said they got you, despite everything,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Of course. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You were an extension of me, however unfamiliar,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They said they did try to understand you, </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They were supposed to understand you, after all.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">(Ignoring you is almost as good as understanding you, right?)</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I did the best I could, too-</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I schooled myself into creating </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">What they thought my happiness ought to look like. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But I couldn’t quite forget you, either.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You sifted through the curtains after midnight,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Drifted cheekily along with the broken strains of a distant melody.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You snuck into brush strokes,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Into words,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Into conversations, sometimes. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This one time, I thought I’d bring you over</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">To the dinner table. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They’d never really met you properly before, you</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Were a discarded memory</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Haphazardly shoved into my closet, after all.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It wasn’t your fault, </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It was never your fault.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I’m sure they would’ve tried to welcome you,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If they’d known how to,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But you were a bouquet of carnations</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I’d picked somewhere, you didn’t quite belong;</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They told me to put you away-</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So I did.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I pretended you weren’t</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The letters I unfolded and folded each night,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That you weren’t</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The photographs that smiled back at me,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As I stood staring, for hours.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I got you a box of your own, you know:</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Partly because I wanted</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">To be able to turn you into something manageable</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That I could shove into forgotten corners;</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And partly because I could not bear</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">To let them see</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Portraits of you clinging</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">To everything</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They thought I was. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It’s been some years now,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They don’t really think about you these days,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They probably believe that you got lost</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Along the way, somewhere,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In the last eighteen years. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I think they’re too distant to really care. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If I brought you up with them, </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They’d probably</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Laugh you off to the past.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Maybe it is a good thing, after all, </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That they’re too far away to know </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">About you, anymore. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They cannot, they will not</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">See you,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">See us,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Anyway. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But that's okay. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">At least we get to dance along</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">To the songs you hum gracelessly, tunelessly.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We get to wake up to each other,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">To laugh, to cry,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">To talk across the dinner table,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">To pull out each crumpled drawing</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Of us holding hands</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That we’d shoved and pushed</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Into boxes</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Labelled ‘her’/’you’.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I’m glad I can unbox you now, </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It must’ve been stifling in there.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Welcome home, it’s been lonely without you. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">(prompt response to a college competition)</span></div>
Avanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319498387136152384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301498329917547891.post-53229764059437423252019-08-17T13:23:00.002+05:302019-08-17T13:53:11.916+05:30To The Flowers On My Bedside Table<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It's spring time-</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Summer, if you go by</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The unacknowledged absence </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Of lingering, lethargic transitions </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Within Delhi's calculated, metropolitan movements</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">(or, the temperature).</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">You're amidst a clutter-</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Sturdy white legs and</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">A smooth turquoise surface </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">That support the imprints </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Of my everyday existence. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">You're the only intruder there,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Flippantly flamboyant in your transient brilliance.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Sometimes I wonder whether you're really meant </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">To be here; I move you to the window sill. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">A breath of fresh air</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">To your stagnant beauty. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The heavy branches of morose city trees</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Pity you. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I bring you back to the corner-</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">You look on contemptuously </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">As postcards, paper, poetry </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Slither onto the table</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And consume the flickering importance</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Of your dropping blossoms.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It's been a week since mother threw you out. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Left to me, you'd still be spilling</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Withered, withering glances</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Upon the evidences of my daily routine. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But it's better this way. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I can imagine that you never crowded </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Over the coffee stains and loose-leafed books</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">That stayed behind. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Now, if only I could pluck away</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The delicate petals of you</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">That drifted into the unexplored crevices and folds</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Of this room. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Happy memories devoid </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Of the oppressive summer heat </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">That they grew out of;</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Impossible to dust away. </span></div>
Avanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319498387136152384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301498329917547891.post-45337427728632335682019-08-17T13:17:00.001+05:302019-08-17T13:21:02.790+05:30An Open Letter To A Dream/Mirage<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">There’s an atmosphere of purpose, of multiplicity across Old Delhi. Stories interwoven </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">into each other peek out through the cries of the shopkeepers and the snippets of </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">conversations that float dreamily, incessantly across its bustling streets. Like the </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">buildings of this place, people and emotions and memories pile over and over and over </span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">each other in a desperate run for acknowledgement. It’s funny how things gain a bland </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">uniformity this way; the sheer juxtaposition of a multitude of eras, narratives, and people </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">gives a singular face to this place.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">If Old Delhi were a character, it’d constantly be running. Running from its past, running </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">to its past, stumbling and pushing and forcing its way to an unknown destination. The </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">quietude of your place always got on your nerves; you’d try to fill it constantly with </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">sound, noise, laughter. Silence always felt too inert to you, as if it enveloped all activity </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">like a lullaby, compelling everything to stop, breathe, and rest. I’d constantly reach out </span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">for your hand as your fingers would attempt to carry off beat after beat on the table, in a </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">desperate attempt to remind you that stillness can also be compelling.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I never really got your need for movement back then. You’d walk out, walk in, pace </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">about- circle, circle, just circle around- as if every motion added purpose to the placidity </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">of our being. You liked to walk around the bazaar, grasping my hand tightly, as if fearing </span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">that the air of exchange would engulf us too. There was so much to give, so much to take; </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">you worried that we’d end up bartering ourselves for a shiny, silver cage, “Thirty rupees </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">only, miss.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Leaving is a tune-less dance, so quick and unquestioning in its permanence. I never </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">expected it to be so hurried, so very devoid of backward-glances and loosening grips. I </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">cannot stand movement, I cannot get rhythm.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Last evening, I tried to stand still in the middle of a by-lane in the old city, in a desperate </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">bid to conjure you back to life. In retrospect, I cannot fathom why I thought that would </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">work- it screamed solitude in the midst of alluring animateness, and you would’ve hated </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">that. Countless, countless hands brushed uncomfortably against mine, and a procession </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">of insistent shoulders had to push, push, push, before I realized that there was no </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">synchronicity left between you and my memory of you. You would never concede to </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">becoming a memory colorized in tranquil waves of green, grey, blue.</span></span></div>
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Avanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319498387136152384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301498329917547891.post-49835741114546530762019-01-20T14:40:00.002+05:302019-01-20T16:01:52.635+05:30Stilted growth/ A Fear of Endings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">An accumulation of faltering beginnings-</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A drawer full of inked pages,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Torn and ripped and torn again.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A methodical preservation</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Of the scattered relics</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Of a past hastily buried</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Into the comforting haze</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Of far too many interminable summers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Could they ever last long enough?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">An incomplete, gnawing desire</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">To revisit a memory no longer haunting</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The place it belonged to.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Memories wiped clean so meticulously,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">That they can barely be heard whispering over balconies</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">On odd, sunny days.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">‘Can you hear me now?’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A name, a name, just a name.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Can plaster and paint and a series</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Of indifferent portraits, faces blurring into one,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Cover the forgotten caresses of your fingerprints?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Can all these expansive catalogues</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Of the things you loved,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Of the things you would’ve grown to love</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Resurrect you?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Tattered sheets glued down</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">To form a jigsaw puzzle of ‘maybe’s.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A desperate inversion of conclusive endings,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">And a need for self preservation</span></div>
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Avanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319498387136152384noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301498329917547891.post-35196886323638128142018-11-28T22:01:00.000+05:302019-01-20T16:05:03.614+05:30Sticky Notes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monospace;"><span style="color: white;">You'd collect memories: fragile, fragrant ones</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Ones that'd threaten to slip out, forgotten,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">to mix in with the autumnal hues of nostalgia.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Ones that'd barely be tangible</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Because of their normalcy, their perfect compactness</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">In the circularity of our routine.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">You'd press them alongside the flowers I'd collect-</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Press them among words of love,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Words we've grown to love.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">We'd make our own compact bundles</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Of little slips of happiness,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">And tuck them foolishly between pages</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Crumbling with overshared love.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Perhaps we've always believed in time travel.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">We've tried to preserve its secrets meticulously </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Within the warmth of a well-worn book.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">I hope someday, a little yellow splayed across the blue</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Of an almost forgotten book</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Reminds you of the snippets of conversations saved faithfully,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Of books and tea and harmonicas,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Of evenings dulling into darkness,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Of weed and clover, oranges and sardines,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">And of love sought, and shared, unconditionally. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">For now, there will be flowers, always</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">And a series of unexplored memories</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Waiting to be tucked in and treasured fondly.</span><br />
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Avanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319498387136152384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301498329917547891.post-79644068695100728742018-11-28T21:58:00.002+05:302019-01-20T16:06:52.895+05:30Hiraeth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Home has always been transient, moving.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I've left snippets of it in car rides</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Spent fighting over the right CD,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Over maps and locations </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And words and their meanings </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">For us.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Perhaps home had planned for us to disagree all along.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Home is scattered across a crosshatching of mountain roads,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Swirling and whirling amidst the long-forgotten laughter</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That still bubbles over unknown paths. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Home has always been mobile, barely tangible.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It rides alongside a metallic blue cycle</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Wobbling with imbalance and uncertainty</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">On a warm winter day.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It's tangled within the length of your hair,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Your long, lustrous hair;</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Waiting to be smoothened into memory.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Home blossoms bright, bright yellow</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Within a flower bed, now left untended. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We've dug around home, in search of seashells, fossils,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In search of long-forgotten relics</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Of memories we cannot revisit.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Home's a melodic cacophony</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Of creaking black gates, paws padding across a terrace,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And a carefree tune hummed gracelessly. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Home has always been more human than merely physical. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It once took residence in a kitchen warmly glowing</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">With the scent of fresh chapattis and heated conversations.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It would pop unexpectedly in poorly lit restaurants</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Buzzing with a thousand stories </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Waiting to be narrated</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">After a simple, 'How was your day?'</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Home's scattered, home has moved around quite a lot,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But home comes back every Sunday </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">To grin foolishly at the scratchy video quality </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Of a lifetime full of love.</span></div>
Avanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319498387136152384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301498329917547891.post-8602272085028931432018-11-28T21:37:00.001+05:302019-01-20T16:10:44.173+05:30Cold<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">“The hills, they’re glowing with warmth,”</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You’d say</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As you shivered</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Underneath the hand-knit sweater</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That Nani had compelled you to wear.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You’d be loath to admit</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That the sharp winter breeze</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Left you</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Chilled.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">“The sun burns earnestly this time of the year,”</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You’d say</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As you’d sit staring at the river,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Lost in the decaying memories</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Of places you’d almost forgotten.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You’d come out of your musings</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">With songs that would speak</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">About the glory Of the rains.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">“There’s something comforting about this weather,”</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You’d say</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As you nursed the scalding cup of tea</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Thrust forcefully into your hand.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You’d sit in the balcony,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Prolonging the sunsets</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">With your delicately short</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And sparse</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Sips.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">“Conversations are cozier in winters,”</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You’d say As you gasped for breath</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">After a coughing bout.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You’d barely manage a croaky hello,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Yet we’d hear you the most,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Within your muffled coughs.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You’d feign good health</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">For the sake</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Of words.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">“It’s unnaturally cold for this time of the year,”</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You said, that day</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As Nani reluctantly turned the fan down</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">On a sultry, August evening.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That day, within the orchards</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Of your private world</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It snowed.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Icy snowflakes kissed</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The cherry trees</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That watched you grow old.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Soft gray clouds beckoned</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">With morbid comfort,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And silence,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Calming,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Reassuring,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Gnawing silence</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Enveloped everything.</span><br />
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Avanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319498387136152384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301498329917547891.post-69701932954255390382018-11-28T21:24:00.002+05:302019-01-22T21:40:42.646+05:30Homespun<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monospace;"><span style="color: white;">The first time I thought of home,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Was when I turned the shower on.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">The hot, cascading water</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Was like a warm hug,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">A reassurance,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">A comforting hand,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">In an unfamiliar place.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">The second time I thought of home,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Was when I sipped coffee.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">That uniquely mundane drink</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Enveloped me</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">In its velvety warmth.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">The third time I thought of home,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Was in the leathery cocoon</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Of the passenger seat,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">When the dulcet hums</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Of cars whizzing by</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Lulled me to sleep.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">The fourth time I thought of home,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Was when the fondling droplets</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Caressed me, as I walked</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">In the falling rain.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">The fifth time I thought of home,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Was when the sultry breeze</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Kissed me</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Under the gaze</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Of a dying sunset.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">The sixth time I thought of home,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Was within the din of the metro crowd</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">When, with bag in hand</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">I stopped midway.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Cloaked within the humdrum,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">My heart throbbed</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">With the beats</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Of a dynamic city.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">And, amidst the mellow voices</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Of bustling lives,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">I felt</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Like I belonged, at last.</span></div>
Avanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319498387136152384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301498329917547891.post-70354211429532114102016-06-25T21:37:00.002+05:302019-01-22T21:43:55.966+05:30The Songs Of The Dead<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The songs of the Dead</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Are the hardest ones to hear,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They resonate with the voices</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Of the unseen and the unsaid.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They carry the timbre of futures not lived,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They are heavy with the baritones</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Of memories not made.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The songs of the Dead</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Are sorrowful to hear,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They are burdened by secrets unknown</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">and are weighed by words left unspoken.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They are riddled with puzzles not unravelled</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And with hopes never fulfilled.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The songs of the Dead</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Are the cruellest ones to hear,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They are embittered by hard circumstances,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And are forced by events unforeseen,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They are played to the tunes of injustice,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And are written by the hands of the undeserving.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The songs of the Dead</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Are melancholic to hear,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They reverberate with the aspirations</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Of men no more.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They speak of lost love, of lost hearts,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Of lost lives.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The songs of the Dead</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hurt the most,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">For they remind</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Of what has been lost</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Forevermore.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">(Thoughts after the June 12, 2016 Orlando Shooting.)</span><br />
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Avanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319498387136152384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301498329917547891.post-51495493703642224222016-03-09T19:19:00.002+05:302019-01-22T21:44:18.775+05:30Mock Not A Woman<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Mock not the pride of a woman,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">For she struggled hard to claim it.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Mock not her meekness,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">For she always had the courage to stand with, and against, man.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Mock not the serenity of a woman,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">For it bore her company, where men failed.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Mock not her confidence,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">For it was the only commodity that she could afford.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Mock not a woman's weakness,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">For her resilience lent her strength.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Mock not her determination,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">For it gave her hope when times were bleak.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Mock not a woman's embellishments,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">For she was seldom credited for her wit.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Mock not her emotions,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">For words were never hers to speak.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Mock not a woman's silence,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">For it was society that robbed her of speech.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Mock not her willingness to fight,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">For equality was never hers for the bidding.</span><br />
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Avanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319498387136152384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301498329917547891.post-62977831803522737022016-01-29T20:55:00.001+05:302019-01-22T21:45:35.120+05:30A Clockwork World<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="s1" style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">PART 1</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The World once ran on clockwork,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Each human akin to a toy,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Which, when its key was wound,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Would begin its daily ploy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Each day was perfection,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Each morning crowned by the same dewy glory,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Each night a starry calm,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">With nary a long face, or a sad story.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Every life was the same,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The same routine,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There was the security of a life of repetition,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The safety of monotony.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The sun was just as bright each day,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">as it was the day before.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The clouds merely repeated,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Their dull encounters from afore.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The people found comfort within it,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">For they knew what was in store</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Beforehand. After all,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Each day was merely</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A mirror of yesterday,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And an image of tomorrow.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1" style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">PART 2</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Until one dawn,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hours before the clockwork day,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A mischievous child,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Stole out, and away,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And pocketed the shiny little key,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That ordained the smooth functioning,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Of the puppet-like world.</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The town awoke, to a certain missing something,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The sun was bright, ayy,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But it wasn’t quite as lustrous as the day before,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And the cloud, quite abnormal,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Darkened and murmured low grumbles and rumbles,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And everything was quite, quite awry.</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The folk were clearly surprised,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Puzzled and bewildered and befuddled.</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Never in a thousand years could the have surmised,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That their picture perfect land,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Could stumble, and teeter, and crumble.</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There was panic, there was chaos,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Their was uncertainty amidst the worries and fumbles.</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The kid, meanwhile, welcomed the change,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He skipped along to the brook nearby,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And while he whiled away the hours,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The golden key mumbled its farewell and goodbye,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And slipped into the bubbling stream,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Where by and by, it was searched for,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But never found, much to the people’s disappointment.</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It had far to travel, to meet the golden shore.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">PART 3</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Months passed, yet the key was lost forever,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The world was upside down,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The weather, the day, the sun,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Unpredictable, And many a frown,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Dampened the world, those few months,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And many a conflicts,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Shattered hearts across.</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Yet, one day the sun dawned bright,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Brighter than it had ever before,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Awe stuck the citizens, was their golden land,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">To return again, so that they could relive,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The harmony from before?</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">However, there at least, they were met with disappointment,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">For the sun shone, not on a bygone time,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But on the future that lay ahead. </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There was violence, perhaps, there was disquiet,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Yet there was a break from monotony,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">From the repetition.</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There was independence, freedom,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The lustrous glory of adventures,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A land of unpredictability.</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And while, the men and women alike,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Mourned the loss of the security of the clockwork world,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They rejoiced</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In the uncertainty, and the opportunity,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Of their reformed little world.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And so, once upon a time,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A naughty kid lost a golden key,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And reformed the world,</span></div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<div class="p1">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">To a land of mystery.</span></div>
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Avanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319498387136152384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301498329917547891.post-12068309231480269782016-01-08T11:07:00.002+05:302019-08-17T13:29:01.427+05:30The Window<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The room was hers, hers to paint.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It was all for herself, each wall, each shelf,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Was hers, and hers alone.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">She lit it with her own sunshine,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">She stuffed it with her own joys.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It was a medley, but it was full of her, </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Of who she was.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Each smile was a trophy within it,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Each tear, a crack in its toughened walls.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The ceiling was a riot of colors,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Each hue a representation,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Of what lay within her heart.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The walls were embroidered</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">By the grubby prints of muddy hands,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">With the mindless squiggles of an artistic hand.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">They were the canvas</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Of her vibrant memories.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">She was satisfied within her room,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Within the littered floor of a childhood</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Spent dreaming of the sun and the stars.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">She was satisfied within her room,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Within the ornaments of her mind.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">She was satisfied, until</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Her eyes landed on the little ray of sunshine</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">That peeked through the curtains.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It unsettled her, it piqued her,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It made her wish to look afar.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It scared her, it intimidated her,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">For she could not imagine</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Pulling the curtains apart.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The outside was scary,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">She was safer within her chambers.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Yet curiosity, curiosity beckoned her</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Until, she found herself fingering</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The hems of the smooth fabric</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">That separated her from what was on</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The other side.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">She pulled it back at last.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">What lay behind, left her agape.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">At first, it seemed but a mere reflection,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Of her own little haven full of fantasies,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Yet, the more she looked, the more she saw,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The little touches, the subtleties, that made it</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Far, far more dearer to see.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The window showed her, not just</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Yet another room,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But rather, yet another part of her.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">She had found a room to share,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And a person, to share it with.</span><br />
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Avanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319498387136152384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301498329917547891.post-22491501528648544912015-07-27T22:13:00.004+05:302019-01-22T21:49:24.686+05:30Not Just The Former President<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In a time when all causes felt lost,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He was a beacon of inspiration.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A fire, a powerhouse, a man with a mission,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A man with a vision, a man of action.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He was a father to millions,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A dependable, reliable personality.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A workaholic, a role model, a man of research,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A man who'd always stick to his word.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Innovative and creative, he was the perfect leader,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Frail, yet bursting with energy,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He was a man of humility.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A man, who deserved immortality.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">RIP APJ Abdul Kalam. You'll always be remembered.</span></div>
Avanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319498387136152384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301498329917547891.post-17720691717449806492015-07-26T12:43:00.000+05:302019-01-22T21:50:19.474+05:30Woolgathering<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It's like we're running endlessly.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Moving across a loop, moving,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But getting nowhere.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Wondering out aloud, chit-chatting with our conscience,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Talking, yet not speaking, breathlessly.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hearing but not listening,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Connected to reality, but oh so vaguely.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Chasing after thoughts, rambling</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Through the meadows of our ideas,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Living in our own mind,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In a world of our own making.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Thinking, but not registering, endlessly</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Moving, just moving,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">On a path called nothing,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">To a place called nowhere.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Perhaps, we're just woolgathering.</span></div>
Avanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319498387136152384noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301498329917547891.post-70208551128468785182015-07-26T12:36:00.000+05:302019-01-22T21:50:45.531+05:30Mother<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Her hands caress,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Her hands soothe,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Her hands heal,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Every wound.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Her hands guide,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Her hands fight</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Every battle of mine.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Her hands shape,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Her hands mold,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Her hands hold me close.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">her hands have calluses,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Yet they are soft.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Her hands are ever so gentle,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As they help me grow.</span><br />
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Avanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319498387136152384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301498329917547891.post-61401894358157938682015-07-13T22:00:00.003+05:302019-01-22T22:08:04.876+05:30When my heart takes the pen.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Biting my lips, I try scribbling furiously,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Searching, seeking, the right words.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Emotions weigh me down, but not my pen.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It finds no words to write.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Tearing yet another sheet,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I scramble towards the next in the pile,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I see blankness again.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">No words, this time either.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Slowly, I let my pen drop,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And hide my face within my cupped hands.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Defeated.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The paper conquers over the writer.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I look up when the numbness in my body </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Overwhelms me.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Another cold night without fire.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And yet I waste these pages, with words</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Unwritten, untold.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It's as if the paper taunts me, </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So I pick the pen up again,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Grimace, at the blot of ink, now adorning the carpet.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The page before me stares rudely,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">In answer, I stare back.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">For a second, only.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I assault the paper this time.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Hours later, I finally eye the rectangular sheet,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And marvel, for I won this time.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I understand now,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The page remains wordless when I search my head,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But words flow freely,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">When my heart takes the pen.</span></div>
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Avanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319498387136152384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301498329917547891.post-39590656241337458112015-07-13T21:06:00.001+05:302019-01-22T21:52:45.826+05:30A Fire<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A spark, it fascinated me,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Zest -the zest for something bigger,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Burnt within it.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It was a start, a beginning.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A prologue to something brighter.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A flame.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It intrigued me. It was a rebel,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">From crimson hues to deep blues,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It burnt. It enveloped. It grew.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But something changed.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It consumed now,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It hissed and it spat,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It devastated.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It became something worse. Fire.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It burnt me. Within.</span><br />
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Avanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319498387136152384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301498329917547891.post-43404342342611604682014-08-09T14:42:00.000+05:302019-01-22T21:54:01.962+05:30What if?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Imagine if you were given a choice,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">To read the story of your life.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Every detail, every inevitable circumstance,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">With the condition that you can't change your fate.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Would you read it, and know how life will be for you,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Would you face the monotony?</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Imagine if you knew the day you'll die,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And couldn't change it, too.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Would you rather enact your life,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The way written on your chapters,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Or would you let fate decide,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And follow blindly onwards.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Would you let each moment speak for itself,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Or would you live in a predicted future?</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Would you rather live in the fear of predicted death,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Or would you be glad for another day to live?</span></div>
Avanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319498387136152384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301498329917547891.post-44159010566600970932014-08-09T12:38:00.001+05:302019-01-22T21:54:24.676+05:30The walk<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">She began her life with a cry,<br />She had a long way to go.<br />There was a path waiting to be threaded on,<br />That bore her name.<br />She started off, toddling on it,<br />Before she was 18 months old.<br />She found it special, for it had its thrill,<br />And an unknown destination.<br />The lovely child, that treaded on her little feet,<br />Was walking on the path of life, my dear.<br />There was no end, just a series of beginnings.<br />Sometimes she went slow, in dread or joy,<br />Either she savored the moment,<br />Or let it pass by.<br />Sometimes she had to run,<br />Sometimes they were narrow escapes,<br />Sometimes she faltered,<br />Sometimes she lost her way.<br />But all the time, she walked on time,<br />She walked through her life.<br />Youth turned to senility,<br />And her steps grew infirm.<br />And though she knew not where she headed,<br />She had to walk along.<br />Maybe there was an end, a destination,<br />But her journey ended before,<br />And somewhere in the middle,<br />She rested forever more.<br />It was before her final step,<br />It was before her final breath,<br />That she was given the satisfaction of knowing,<br />That the path itself was her goal,<br />That the walk she savored, the walk she dreaded,<br />Was what was meant for her.<br />She realized, that this was special, unique,<br />The path that bore her name.<br />This path that had been crossed by many more,<br />Was her very own, never to be treaded on again.</span></div>
Avanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319498387136152384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301498329917547891.post-87770519511654119032014-03-04T23:06:00.000+05:302019-01-22T21:42:41.183+05:30Together Again<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Remember the day,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">When we travelled in metaphors?</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Others were speechless,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We were not.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We babbled stupidly for them, </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But we knew the truth inside.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Understanding, we call it now,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But for us it was a magical power,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Through which we read each others' meanings.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We were kids with childish thoughts,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And expressed ourselves irrationally,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But, our expressions weren't false,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They were simply metaphors,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Only we knew the truth inside.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Let's travel back in Time,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Let's travel through the metaphors again,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We'll unravel the truths again,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But this time, we'll do it together.</span></div>
Avanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319498387136152384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301498329917547891.post-83892932664003375822014-03-03T22:16:00.000+05:302019-01-22T21:54:59.794+05:30This Can't Be Goodbye<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I walked the dusty road that led to the cottage,<br />It seemed like a decade had passed since I'd seen the place,<br />Yet truly it was but yesterday.<br />Still, yesterday seemed so distant,<br />And I tell of it, before my hazy gaze,<br />Shall fall when I last met him.<br />Near dusk, a trudging traveller,<br />Had come home at last to a cheery fire.<br />She had come to visit her grandpapa,<br />Who she'd longed to see many times before.<br />And there at dusk he sat with pipe in hand,<br />A soft whistle, a welcome sign was all that was heard.<br />He got up when she drew into sight, though he had grown feeble,<br />He hobbled on his feet with difficulty,<br />To meet the child he'd longed to see.<br />He knew he was not to live, life was counting its last days,<br />But love, dear love! Was what brought him to his feet,<br />And sent him blundering forth.<br />She caught his hand, held it firm,<br />And gave a cheery smile,<br />How dear he was! How could she ever say goodbye?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He trembled as they sat together<br />and talked into the growing dark.<br />She was light in his humble dwellings,<br />She was a breath of fresh air.<br />She talked with determination and hope,<br />And she thought a lot more,<br />So dear was her sweet grandfather,<br />She'd stay by his side forevermore.<br />Was fate playing a petty trick, or was it some noble blessing,<br />That his soul shall finally rest,<br />Amidst the trembling and quivering.<br />And now, Farewell! Oh Dearest soul!<br />Rest in Peace, you deserve it!<br />Bless you for your kindness,<br />You have left me forever indebted.<br />Take care, take care, in the angelic world you dreamt of,<br />Be happy as you always were.<br />Grandfather, this farewell, is all<br />You'll remain in hearts, so I shan't say Goodbye, after all.</span></div>
Avanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319498387136152384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301498329917547891.post-23364053536957562442014-02-17T20:57:00.003+05:302019-01-22T22:10:31.071+05:30A True Devotee<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I could say that I believe in Shiva, Allah, Jesus,</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And I dare say that saying so will not create a fuss,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Yet will I be right in doing so?</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Till I haven't controlled my anger,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Till I don't stop being in a temper,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Till I don't feel humble in my heart,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Till the silliness of discrimination, I don't outsmart,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Till I don't follow and believe in equality,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Till I don't adopt serenity,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I cannot be believing in Shiva, Allah or Jesus,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And that may create a fuss,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But doing is believing, and devotion is believing,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And until I don't fulfil the cries of humanity,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I won't be believing.</span><br />
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Avanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319498387136152384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301498329917547891.post-52001273183982926302014-01-29T21:46:00.000+05:302019-01-22T22:12:43.452+05:30The Last Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The Earth shook and shivered,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The lands trembled and quivered,</span></span></div>
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Earthquakes were common these days,</div>
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Just as the old prophecy says,</div>
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And whispers spread-the Earth dies,</div>
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Dies right in front of our eyes.</div>
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Grumbling, muttering clouds roll in the sky,</div>
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Even the Sun seems to be saying goodbye,</div>
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Shades of dark melancholy, enveloping everything,</div>
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And as the prophets had always been thinking,</div>
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And truly so-the Earth dies,</div>
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Dies right in front of our eyes.</div>
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Silence and dread of the nearing end prevail,</div>
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Every being sickly and pale,</div>
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And death, death only is in sight,</div>
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As the Earth fights its final fight.</div>
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And whispers spread- the Earth dies,</div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Dies right in front of our eyes.</span></div>
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Avanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319498387136152384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301498329917547891.post-65217952219225789782014-01-13T15:34:00.000+05:302019-01-22T21:57:38.452+05:30A Battle Lost<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; line-height: 24px;">In a cold place, and with colder heart,</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In jumbled lanes, and jumbled lives,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In white, pristine white,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Too dark, too dark, oh, too dark,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">With hearts too heavy, too grieved,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">With guns too ready, a battle perceived.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A battle, not of kings and queens,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Nor of a display of power, of strength,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Nor one fought for religious ambition, </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Only a battle, Only a battle</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Only a battle of life and death,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Of pain and sorrow,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Of grief and despair,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Only a battle, lost today.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The lingering, white world,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Only a battlefield,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Why worry, today,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We've lost, anyway. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">( Entry to Prompt of the Week )</span></div>
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