Nov 16, 2022BeautyThere is sadness in beauty. In a mother’s gift, in a father’s concerned voice. In the diamond ring bought on a drunken night, and then forgotten to be given. There is love in sadness. In the moment that something happens, there is sadness that it will never happen again.Relationships1 min readRelationships1 min read
Oct 11, 2022AbsenceI don’t seek to be there next to you, I only need to know if you feel my absence.Love1 min readLove1 min read
Mar 30, 2022It was just that the time was wrong‘it was just that the time was wrong’ To make love To not Make love To kiss To be together To be apart To talk Or Not. Is there ever a right time? To break a heart? To be apart?Love1 min readLove1 min read
Sep 2, 2021GoodbyeI wanted to say goodbye In a way that didn’t hurt you too much So that you could nurse your broken heart When you didn’t even know that it was broken. Meals in the fridge A tub of ice cream To make my absence easier (If you noticed it) But you never showed up Even to allow me to say goodbye.Love1 min readLove1 min read
Sep 13, 2020NostalgiaSteeped in nostalgia For open spaces and teenage angst for loneliness And an uncertain but hopeful future when the body felt strong and capable of the impossible. Nostalgia for chance encounters and the unfamiliar spaces encountered For the possibility of new love(s)Love1 min readLove1 min read
Feb 15, 2020Were you unfair or I?Goodbye dear lover Ex Lover Friend Ex friend It was good while it lasted The familiar feeling of the end Is near Once more it will be over Once more The hurt, pain and anguish of being ripped apart Once more, the checks and balances will be counted Were you unfair, or I? Oh once more we will hurt And promise ourselves that this is it It feels harder this time Tougher LongerLove1 min readLove1 min read
Feb 15, 2020HERHER I look at her Shiny, glowing, energetic With lovely taut legs And wispy caramel brown hair I imagine Your eyes looking at her Your hands all over her Your lips seeking hers I imagine All that we could have been Might have been.Love1 min readLove1 min read
Jan 9, 2020On reclaimingI will reclaim- The colour saffron, for its unreal warmth, for the beautiful heartbroken landscape that it grows in. My voice, my language. Urdu, Hindi, Sanskrit, Bangla, Punjabi, English. I will remember that all these are my languages. That fanatics cannot take away the richness and beauty of it. It…India1 min readIndia1 min read
Nov 28, 2019UncertainI am uncertain, a little wobbly Walking on water and then on burning coals How can I be steady when the ground beneath is shifting What do I hold on to, When Even my desire to see the sun Is shrouded by a passing cloud Be still. Something be still, be certain, be calm,be sure Because I am not.Life1 min readLife1 min read
Sep 4, 2019A corner to beI need a place to hide today. Where day turns to night turns to day. Where time and space don’t matter, only I do. I want words and images to curl up around me, with a warm yellow light. The feeling of watching a film I know I’m going to…Imagination3 min readImagination3 min read
