Blank canvas, a clean slate
I wake up and these are words
I constantly repeat to myself.
Today, I’ll chose to be different.

I’ve carefully handpicked the
mask that helps me hide
parts of me, that aren’t good enough
the parts that are too dark.

Once my day is over,… Continue Reading

sitting alone, my drink
strong enough to prick tears
from eyes strictly kept dry,
all of a sudden tastes sickly sweet
sweetened by memories
troubling a drunken consciousness
like water circling a drain
white walls, grey in the waning sunlight
the only sound to keep me company
is your breathing… Continue Reading

surreal, bizarre, illogical
are some of the words used
to describe the brave and
adventurous

“how did he get that from ‘that’?“
or “does she think she can pull that off ?”
are questions that plague creative spheres
like locusts swarming over a paddy field

and amidst this bellowing of… Continue Reading

Been a lifetime of wandering and falling
Saw many faces but there was one that I could never forget
The brown eyes that sparkled with life, and the lips that seemed to be permanently curled up into a smile
There could be no mistake in my mind, that it was … Continue Reading

Hush.
Hush.
Hush.
The winds bellowed amongst the trees.
Her tone remained rather calm, as though she was reciting a prayer.
Her eyes spoke a foreign language of fear and abandoned hope.
She grasped my hand firmly with her cold clammy hands and held it tight against her chest.
I … Continue Reading

My double shot soy latte
has turned cold as I sit
on this rusty handicapped bench.
It’s a beautiful park with red earth
and birds nesting all around me like opinionated men.
I come here every year the night before my birthday
to see this huge dynamic blindingly lit flyover.… Continue Reading

Scratches, bites, bruises and fights
Painful screeches, emotional breaches
While I lay there wed, not saying no,
In his ‘right’ he presumed so-
Mounam sammati lakshanam

Downtrodden, depressed, outrightly oppressed
Chastised, socially downsized, cast aside
While the silence in their death, they couldn’t interpret
In their right, they presumed so-… Continue Reading