Stories untold, clearing outIn the shadow, embracesIn the light, releasesOn every page, a voiceOnce curbed, now saidWhat to do withpain,plenty,pleasure,envyelegance?The new and living way, en route. So the story goes—making room for the unexpected, can’t say it feels pretty but … Continue reading
…let us hope.Unmoored by jealous ragefragile, untended child you remain.You do more harm than good lamenting and defendingIt’s not us you’re fighting for is it?Sanction it all you want; it’s your biddingand repeat will linger around your days and nights,oh … Continue reading
It doesn’t have to stay that way, fright without solution, a feeling without feeling. There’s a resolution, there always is. An evening of perfection waning, you with abated breath clench onto your boyish caprices until its revisited decline. Nothing more … Continue reading
This is what my aunt told me over a discussion of my current situation. She is the sweetest, we cried together, the ancestral trauma no doubt is weighty yet so beautifully telling and in her three words she conveyed what … Continue reading
Once upon a time ago, a five-year-old boy asked me for his hand. I accepted not knowing what it’s all about, nor the toil at hand. A quarter of a century later, that boy, still five-years-old, yearns for attention, searches … Continue reading
When your heart is left with the remnants, still smoldering from a ravaged battlefield, a hill or two become more than a routine, they become a heraldic urgency of sorts. Just another dizzying, hazy early morning acclivous brisk treading, what … Continue reading
I wanted to say sorry and you’re welcome to a special person whom I let down. We connected near the end of our four-year milestone on a quasi-campus Metropolis where a lot of energies could make or break you at … Continue reading
Immovable and lost inside rich caramel swirled with glints of gold. It’s how it feels to me, this awareness of reality as was once known and thought to be understood. A faraway dream to stir an untold desire, a flame … Continue reading
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