Ghosts

You never changed all those years. Those shiny eyes, lopsided smile and a penchant for charm.

Fourteen (Words, Worlds and Girlhood Teenage)

What exactly have you been so afraid of? Take the steps you want, run around in the bushes, touch all the leaves you want to – you won’t be dirtying anything. You are a devotee of words; you are a dreamer of worlds. You shall only know peace when you have your dragon and the dragon wishes to keep learning different ways of expression, the shifts, the slides, and the falls and rises. Hear the air around you. Aren’t your breaths sounding more courageous than before?

Twelve (Under The Moonlight)

Before my eyes stopped moving, I saw a crown of flowers and bones on my soul. I presume, the flowers were for my flesh and the bones for my skeleton. After all, what we shed also becomes an inevitable part of our identity.

Who needs the sunshine?

(I wrote this piece inspired by a few piano pieces I was gifted by Disha amongst others. Please read this slowly.) You start walking along with the crisp wind in the city. There is no one on the streets. It’s still early in the morning and your steps are brisk. You have to reach where […]

Ten (Goddess – 12.07.2022)

If Mom were a goddess, her sculpture would be of a woman on her scooter, with a to-do list, a pen, a rolling pin, a marksheet, a cheque, a paintbrush, a pair of pliers, a novel, and her heart in eight of her hands. Her hair would be made in a bun and a helmet would be thrown on the ground to signify the irritation cause by it.

Nine (Friends)

By the time I realised I needed boundaries, I’d given away the fences in donation (lol).

Eight (Thirsty)

Spiders don’t bother me. Lizards do. Lizards feel like robbers intruding on my privacy and I get very self-conscious. So, I never open my windows till it gets too suffocating to breathe. However, when I do open it, I keep a watch on the window the entire time, hitting the wall at regular intervals to make sure that approaching lizards run away.

Six (Strength That Breaks)

ToMy childhood bestie, Today, on your birthday, I wanted to write you the most beautiful letter about our happiest memories. But then, I got reminded of how happiness hurts you these days. It’s gotten so far away, hasn’t it? My friend, you’re strong even when you cry. You cry these days, look at me with […]

11 paras of cholera

I gag at the mirror, the ugly sight
You tell me I chose to look like this
There’s cholera trying to stick to me
I scream, you shout back for negativity

To the young one inside

Okay to breathe in ‘n hold your tears
As long as you let loose occasionally
Ganga also floods the city
The moment it rains too bountifully.