But It Is Just A Night!

Death lingers in the air. Every second phone call is heart crunching. Sometimes I feel may be this is Kal Yug, the actual time for death and devastation. And the cause had to be man! Sometimes I feel it is nature doing its balancing act but then when I see the good people actually losing...

The Songs That Linger

Rust stains the iron trunk cover that once adorned embroidered cherry blossoms hanging from each corner. The faint lavender fragrance that once lingered in the air is now lost to the moldy smell that hangs around like the dead. The four poster bed no longer creaks like the old woman who once rested on its...

Reasons

They stood there, heads buried in the sand Bodies shivering in fear... waiting “This too shall pass” they said Maybe they had their reasons They burnt the wayfarer blood stained their hands He looked suspicious “Just look at his clothes,” they said Maybe they had their reasons They took her to the darkness And devoured...

Meera, Not Radha (Narcissist’s Lover)

It lingers... The words may be silent but the music, the rhythm and the shiver lingers with your song. Our song, you had said. I whispered the words into your ears and you created sheer poetry out of those stupid lines I mumbled. “Shayari... Ahem!” I laughed. “Ghazal,” you said. “That is what you are...

Unapologetic

No matter which corner of the world you go to, you will find them. They have different silhouettes but the same soul. Not a favourite among the socially bind in fact they are deemed scary. Broom dwellers, Pointy hats, black cats... when they are around people seem wary. I will not go global, let us...