Charade

Charade

The worst thing that you could do to someone is not acknowledging their presence. Ignoring their existence, making their life a lie. Years of love and care bestowed upon them, all gone in the blink of an eye. Saying you don’t know them, forgetting the millions of stories shared together. And when their touch reminds you of dark nights, pretending not to shiver. Not looking in their eyes, for you…

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Rainbow

“Tell me about yourself, I want to know!” You ask me to describe myself not in words I reserve for an acquaintance or the man taking my interview But in words that paint my insides and colour my sky, my definitions of yellow, black, red and blue You want to know, not judge, and I believe that’s what opens my soul to your inspection And I find myself telling you about that one time I fell in a…

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The Definition

Love, my grandmother tells me, is the flower she sees every morning on her bedside table after granddad’s morning walk. She tells me it’s the toffee she hands out to the crying child at home. The view of her garden after a rain, and the perfect cup of tea made by my mother, is what love is. Love, she says, doesn’t conform to one person alone. Love, my father tells me, is the smile of my mother…

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Boring

When I saw you, the world did not stand still. There was no music playing in the background. There were no gentle winds caressing your face. There were no heart-shaped balloons floating around you. Time did not move in slow motion. Everything was normal, ordinary. My coffee still tasted bitter, my hair still stuck to my lipgloss. But maybe because it was so normal, so everyday, my soul fell in…

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I Believed You

When you said you love me I believed you Your words were music to my ears, soothing my pain and washing away my fears When you said you’d always be mine I believed you Your confidence was hard not to catch, helping me through life’s rough patch When you said you’d never leave I believed you Your eyes had that bright light, and I thought you’d keep your promise, you might When you said you…

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I Saw India Walk Today

I Saw India Walk Today

I saw India walk today. Not in the form of some technological development, not as a rocket mission going successful. Not in the face of global recognition, not in the reach of highways and schools. At the most basic, grass root level of our existence, I saw India walk today. Clutching hands with it’s oft forgotten past, reminding me that I haven’t seen it all, not really, not yet. I watched as…

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