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 [...]

Here’s my heart on your plate, now take your knife and cut it, don’t worry it’s well done!

What are we in this world but flawed disappointments to one another. You take that needle and poke my heart, I bleed, you’re not surprised nor am I. You give me that needle and ask me to do it to you, I take it and lock it in my Pandora’s box, Surprise! Surprise! I don’t [...]