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Everything is just fine

We put on a brave heart, with a smile across our lips While our soul weeps and weeps For the tragedies that have piled up throughout our lives Why do we say that we are fine when we breathe between the broken cracks

We say we are all doing fine But are we? What does ‘Fine’ signify? How we hide behind a stack of facades that we put on  Burying our fears deep within this silence  We have surrounded ourselves with  What do we mean when we proclaim to be fine We put on a brave heart, with a smile across our lips While our soul weeps and weeps  For the tragedies that have piled up throughout our…

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The one that doesn't exist

How do you chase after something that doesn’t exist? How do you find ‘the one’? Love you say begets pain  It crushes your soul And ruins your heart   Till it forgets what feelings have felt like  But you linger a little bit more  Seek that one love  To soak you in warmth and beauty  Seek a kind of love that you have heard doesn’t exist  So why do you keep running after the…

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Your Heart Burns Too

Love hasn’t withered away  The distance hasn’t erased those memories That I have locked inside my heart  I can feel the scent of your hair  The waves dancing across my face  And I know how it feels to be a step away from you And inhale you like it fires up my every being  But now when you are far away  I don’t know whether our love is burning our hearts to ashes  To rise all over again…

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My belief has become a graveyard

My belief has become a Graveyard

My belief has become a graveyard All my hopes shattered into pieces  All my hopes shattered into pieces  Washed away by the tornadoes  And buried in the deep sea While I stand here alone  My heart becomes hollow and my soul bereft of light How do I find a sliver of strength  To survive wars that never stop waging inside  What do I hold onto When everything has slipped away  Like they…

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There's a place where all lost things go

I believe there’s a place Where all the lost things go  Where all the lost things go  But what about my heart? Why is it dangling at the edge of a sword? Why is it pining like there is no tomorrow My heart has been lost to a land without the sun  Where apart from nail-biting cold there is pitch darkness  It can never find a way out  Is it what the lost place looks like? Is it where it…

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Magic

Do you believe in how they come into existence? Maybe they are just whispers of the wind And it somehow feels like your hand slowly tracing patterns on my skin  Something close to what we believe cease to exist  Because you, are my almost magic How could I let that feeling fade?  Magic tumbled from your beautiful eyes The moment I met you  And spoke a language that I memorised by…

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You ❤️

You can make me smile without any intention The way you look into my eyes and caress my heartbeat I can never explain to you in words The way you look into my eyes and caress my heartbeat I can never explain to you in words You and I have fierce hearts We burn and rise in love You, my love, have made the ocean in my heart calmer  My chaos still My hopes and dreams shine brighter  And I…

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Hero & Leander

The locked up priestess of Aphrodite, HeroStuck in a tower of narrow HellespontWas forbidden, to indulge in the affairs of menA young lad from Abydos from afar, opposite of HellespontFell in love with herAnd impressed the beautiful lass with his passionAs love intensified between Leander and HeroA lamp she lit every nightTo steer his way through the waves to meet her A fateful night winds rose…

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Blur of moment

It was rainingSilver drops caressing my face   Silver drops caressing my face   And suddenly I saw you pass by  Your eyes held mine for a moment That caught my breath  Replaying those memories  Where my eyes couldn’t have enough of you  Staring at you ignited my heartbeats  Like you are the only thing that mattered  And I couldn’t express in any kind of language how love felt…

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Habit of Remembering You

Tujhe yaad kar liya haiTujhe yaad kar liya haiAayat ki tarahKaayam tu ho gayi haiKaayam tu ho gayi haiRivayat ki tarah I have inhaled you, memorized you, the twinkle of your eyes when you had smiled at me. I have memorized you like a poem that I can never forget even if the words on the pages would fade and turn to dust with time. I have memorized like a wildflower flourishing in the darkest…

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I would know that I have found my love

How is it that the person we love becomes a metaphor for every beautiful thing in this world? New Blog Post 'I would know that I have found my love'

Jo naa bhaaye, teri nazar koDekhungi naa main phir woh nazara How is it that the person we love becomes a metaphor for every beautiful thing in this world? They become the saddest sunset, the passionate moon, and the endless ocean. Every time my eyes wander to places, people, and things, your heart possesses mine and the feeling of your heart spreads into my bloodstream I understand how certain…

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Book Review- Soundless Echoes by Prachi Prangya Agasti

When I pick up a short story book with a clear theme, it’s like embarking on a mini adventure. Each page feels like a surprise, unraveling a new aspect of the theme. Love, in particular, has a way of tugging at my heartstrings. It’s incredible how authors can explore the complexities of love, from its […]Book Review- Soundless Echoes by Prachi Prangya Agasti

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“Rain. And bright buses. People - a lot of people going about their business. Not one knows the other but in this city of lights, dreams and gutters, all their movements seem like careful choreography. It’s only when you stop to look does an error present itself in the synchronization. And then more and then you can’t stop noticing them. This is why you mustn’t - you must not stop nor sleep in my city.”

— Mumbai 2019 

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Hold you back even when you want to run

You hide because the thoughts grasping your heart could be devastating or you are afraid of how powerful they might be. New Blog Post ‘Hold you back even when you want to run’

Kabhi kabhi laage raaha ansunaJo bhi man mein laageKaha ankahaKinaare, kinaarePe reh gayi, naiyya reSavaalo, bhare hoYe Saare, nazare Sometimes we feel like we are lost, the road that we have started to tread upon isn’t leading anywhere and somehow we are stuck in a loop or a dead end. How do we go on? The thoughts inside overpower us with a weight that cannot be held anymore. The things that we…

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What do you miss the most about a fading relationship?

– The heart that breaks with every breath you take and your mind creates a barrier so that you don’t fall weak to your feelings. You don’t surrender into this madness again. – You feel like you have been sinking in the depths of your mistakes, arguments and disrespects since quite a long time alone. – Your feelings do not die all at a time. Your heartbeats call for ‘one last time’ while your…

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How does someone become a stranger

They become the softest edge of a knife, slowly piercing your heart till it bleeds to learn that people are created in the weirdest way possible.

1. They become the softest edge of a knife, slowly piercing your heart till it bleeds to learn that people are created in the weirdest way possible. People hurt you when they love you the most, they become attached to you at one time and distance from you at another like you mean nothing to them. 2. They become unsatisfied. Everything you do irks their very being, they complain, crib, and yell…

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Dear someone willing to hear me out

There are times when, and I cannot define the number because I barely can count, how many times I have felt like this. Scared. Terrified. As many synonyms, you can add to that list. I always feel like this Standing at the edge of the cliffAnd stare at the depth that I cannot measureYet, I take the plungeI can hear him breathe unevenlyLike my breaths leap out of boundsAnd I just count the number…