Gagana NV

My past dances around me
In hazy misty circles of memories
I relish the soil’s touch on my fingers
The green of the rows and rows of tender saplings I now shelter
Balms my eyes
The same eyes that has stared at closed doors for too long
I sit under the sun,
Untie my hair
Stretch my legs
And as my bare feet and heart treads on the coarse path across…

The have-to list of our times

Children have to be obedient
Dogs have to be obedient
Children have to be disciplined
Young adults have to be disciplined
Dogs have to be disciplined
Heck, all and everybody have to be disciplined
Cows and goats and bulls and hens have to be husband-ed
Wives have to be husband-ed
Women have to…

We give milk and chocolates to our kids.
We buy newspapers and read it front to back.
We drink tea and coffee and beer.
We tolerate and accomodate our elderly parents and grand parents.
We follow the clock, the calendar, the Sundays and the Mondays and the anniversaries of each other’s birth days and marriages and deaths.
We follow the rules and the…

A fear

Somedays I look at the ocean above, I look at the beauty, the colours, the fast pace of the clouds and all I can think is that it will pour down on…

I can’t copy.

On the day I turned 25, I decided I will play that old favourite game of mine, the one I used to play with my sister when our age was still in…