The City

Did you know this city didn't sleep tonight? It watched through the darkness which enveloped the night sky, The empty terrains waiting for a lover to pass by. It peeped through the ruffles that slip from the window Every time an engine stops near the road. It blinked with the light that impatiently waits for...

For the winner within you

A very Happy New Year to my readers! It's been a long time since I used this platform to address my thoughts, but I knew when I'll get back here I'll have something different than the usual to share.  I started blogging in 2014 and I have come a long way since then. Most of...

I don’t like Smiling Faces

I don't like smiling faces What I mean is I don't like faces that smile all the time.   They put the obvious under a veil shielding away the demands of their body; they turn a close eye to the fact of the time.   The stretch of their muscles give away a suppressed sigh,...

Home

It all began on a journey away from home, in a longing for a place I would want to call home.  I was in the company of my friends and acquaintances yet I was alone, alone- not in the sense that we all secretly want to be, but in a way that makes you want...

Comer Spring

She didn't want him to come. She never expected he'd. But he did. She didn't want to feel what she felt, but he insisted, persistently. And, she did. It terrified her, the intimacy words would create. It scared her, the feelings he would generate. She was in a happy place, all by herself. Her walls...

When Words burst

Today, it burned again, within. Or was it a choke? Maybe.   Today, it hurts again, believing.   The winds last night told a different tale They whispered you had changed. Believe me, I had a hard time believing.   The stars stood witness to the fable. They saw words blowing up in the air,...

Infantile Trooper

Amidst the azure winter freeze Blew an abandoned disarmed feather I held her close in the weather Asked, what's her business in the breeze?   She flicked her tail in courtesy Looked East, flapped her golden hair Pointing towards the lost trail, She said, she lived there But soon came a giant hail To trample...

Of Dreams That Do Come True..

She had just finished watching The Cinderella Story and entered the room where her mother was managing the bills. She came a little closer and asked her mother, “Mom, do you believe in happily ever afters?” not sure how to answer her daughter, she said, “I don’t know, I have never known it in person.”...

The City at Dawn

I could feel myself burning, as if lying on a lake of fire. I could feel sweat gushing down my forehead, I could sense a lump in my throat. I tossed and turned to make myself comfortable, the mattress shrieked, making an irksome noise. It was impossible to sleep under such circumstances, the room made...

On a completely different note…

This is not a love story. It's a story about love. Love lost, love gained. Love felt, love expressed. Sometimes the way we had expected it to be. Sometimes the other way around. But love is love. For all the tears and all the pain, for all the smiles and all the joy, one word...