Mirthful Sorrow

He was beautiful. He always looked like he was a part of an exquisite painting. I remember when I first met him I was instantly mesmerized. It was his eyes. In certain angles they looked like bright emeralds. The way he focused them on me. Only for a few seconds just to say he noticed [...]

Family Portrait

A couple of weeks ago, I had to sit for an interview for me to do my project in an institute in Canada. I already knew I was going to get into this institute because my grades, resume and all the other extra details that were required were good. One of my dad’s friends from [...]

Downward Spiral

Today morning I got up with a feeling of malaise. Something in my stomach told me it’s going to be a bad day. My friend woke me up with a call at 9 am, I was a bit irritated, but I wanted to take an initiative to be nice, so I agreed to accompany her [...]

The hole in the word love

There have been millions of poems, songs, movies and stories made on ‘love’. What is it about ‘love’ that causes people so much happiness and pain at the same time? So many risks are taken and in the end we get shattered. On certain days, its difficult to pick ourselves up from the bathroom floor [...]

The demons that torment me

My stomach started to rumble, it had been 4 hours since I had that one sandwich for lunch. I had skipped breakfast, now it was five in the evening and I was sitting in my friend’s house watching him roll a joint in his bedroom. Okay, before I continue I need to assign the required [...]

Dancing with the Older Man.

I remember the first time I met him, he was wearing a black suit. I wasn’t paying much attention to him, there were other men who caught my eye that diverted my attention. I could still feel him watching me…… then we were introduced. He talked and talked and talked. We spoke on science, biotechnology, [...]

Under my blankets

All my life, I’ve been an introvert, going through my own pain, pain that I created for me to drown. My eyes once showed confidence, determination, ambition and motivation, now they just show sorrow. I cry almost everyday under my blankets because thats the safest place in the world to hide my pain. I don’t [...]

Fear of Loneliness

This is for the first person I fell in love with, ” The first cut is definitely the deepest”.
Fear is spoken in a whisper,
It tugs at your heart with its claws,
It leaves you in a whimper,
And your courage does it gnaw;
Every sight around you dims,
Evey object you touch fades,
It leaves you pale and grim,
And thats [...]

Hands Cuffs

Devoid of choice is she today,
A knot is being tied,
Her thoughts run astray,
As the bells have been rung and a part of her soul has already died;
Holy knots they say!
I dare not question the sanctity,
But I have reached that auspicious day,
And my feelings have driven me to insanity;
When a lilly blossoms from the soil,
There is [...]

Ode to the “Dove”

My heart has an empty space within,
Where you once possessed a spot,
But now you’ve left it tattered and broken,
Through which an arrow has been shot;
Where are those words you once spoke,
Did it really come from the heart,
For now those words my throat does choke,
And leaves me alone in the dark;
You’ve taken away my spirit,
You’ve stripped [...]