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?

Violence in a Molotov

if future were a bag on my back
the straps would melt my shoulders through
and I’d still scramble to hold it between my knees

Studs (02.03.2023)

I’ll forgive you again
You’ll hurt me again
This is how we live and love
I haven’t known anything more

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

Four (The Good Kiddo)

I was a good kid for almost 15 years of my life. I never asked my family for money to party or permissions to leave the house. I seldom watched television for long hours. I sat for my mandatory 2-3 hours of study daily. I did my tuition homework, helped out in chores, ate what I was given, wasn’t too demanding, wore whatever was picked out for me, was praised often for my mature understanding, etc.

Two (Men Who Are Abused By Women)

If men’s abuse is not systemic, the discussion of neither women’s so-called ‘abusive’ tendencies nor women’s systemic oppression should take place. Such grossly misplaced dialogues are vulgar and are extremely disrespectful to male survivors of abuse.