Hi Friend

Hi friend Sit with me please Let’s be best friends for today So that I can go find new people to dump tomorrow Hi friend Have you ever noticed how pretty your eyes are? And oh your hair is the softest thing ever After mine, that is Hi friend Let’s take photos of us Smile at…

Beach

She stood still in the harsh waters With her feet placed firmly on the ground The wet sand threatened to give away, creating a void Threatened to suck her in the deep bowels of the Earth The horizon cradled a setting sun in its arms And the baby went slipping down each second She reached…

Traits

I wasn’t born with selflessness in me I learnt it watching my mom on a spree Of tending to wounds and empty stomachs She gave up on her impeccable beauty I wasn’t born with love in me I learnt it when my brother cuddled me With a shine in his eyes, he’d look up to…

Don’t

Ask me not how I shall love you, For my answer will include all my heart and soul Ask me not how I shall protect you, For my answer will include hope, blood and sacrifice Ask me not how I shall sleep at night, For my answer will include always keeping my eyes open for…

Coward

I am afraid, Terrified actually, What if I give you my heart? And you crush it to pieces, It has happened before, It will happen again, Yet I cannot brace myself for the pain And the melancholy. What if you break my trust? It will shatter like glass, And the splinters will prick my soul…

200 follows!

So, it’s been a journey of a whole year which led me to this. Thank you to all the people who read my blog and to all those who like, comment and followed me. You may not know this, but these random, unexpected acts of kindness nurture a sound future for me. There have been many…

Life of a popular girl

They talk about her Like she’s a gem Like she’s the last glimpse of the horizon Like she’s the sparkle in a glass of champagne Like she’s a dream made of glitter Like she’s the collision of hopes and dreams Like she’s made of stardust Like she’s a diamond in a coal mine But what…

Survival

We chose to build a castle of glass We chose to make it high and strong The world pelted stones at our shelter And we mocked them for assuming us to be fragile Until one day there came along a man They called him fate Reeking of raw strength and madness He took his bare…

Fragile

Today, I was watching a video of Vlogbrothers called How to Never Feel Embarrassed Again and it set me off thinking. In this video, Hank says how if you not value the other person’s opinions, you won’t really find anything they say embarrassing. And that set me off thinking about the fragility of our self esteem and…

Bound

A few tears came to soften her seared vision A great sickness of heart smote him Great souls smitten and scourged But still invested with the dignity of immortality Surviving the inevitable every time it visited them A melancholy monotone beat on their hearts The usual, ripping of their hearts commenced They sighed in unison…