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What Can I Do?

I don't want to face the aftermath The ruins a fabricated, pointless war I shouldn’t have to, but what can I do? I can only vote and...

To Love

To love is to immerse yourself Into someone else, To look up at them and see The most beautiful being ever. To love is to share with...

A Dreamt Up Heaven

A Dream or Heaven? It was a beautiful afternoon, a mild one. We’d just played frisbee in a lush green field, damp with dew under a...

Everyday, Someone New

I genuinely admired the way she did her hair, her accented way of speaking, her humour and her kindness. I barely knew her, but music is...

The Bane of Returning

I fear that my fears Overwrite my love for my peers I'm scared of returning home To a room where I'd felt alone, To where I'd wished to...

Carnations

Roses, tulips and sandalwood I'd buy you a garden if I could. Beautiful boy, sunshine and warmth And summer, excitement and mirth; Silly...

Aroma

Tea-stained mugs and whisked eggs A balcony overlooking pink sunrises A dramatic book and light day-plans A home washed with buttered...

Preeti

We were just friends. She’d hold her arms out for me, her comfortable chest to lay on, her comfortable aroma to feel at home in, and...

Rumi-esque

Everything I write is about love I hope you never find my art For it would be embarrassing, Forward, irrational, stupid, Devious,...

Untitled, With Love

Cycling back a long distance from eight hours of work on a Friday evening, I watch the sky spread above me: blue, blue sky with cumulus...

The Scientist

From benzene rings and pure handwritten logic, we’ve leapt to computers and algorithms. Somewhere in between my courses, my personal life...

Growing Into A Child

The shield I’ve been trying to destroy for the past five years is starting to grow again. A woman subject to casual sexism, pressurised...

My Love

My love, infused in the oldest south Indian music, the violin singing praises of love in different raagas and mesmerising alapanas, with...

Melatonin - Or The Lack Thereof

3:40AM. I’m woken up by some demigorgon in a Pac-man maze- world preventing me from changing the ion channel density of a network. 3:50...

Extinguished, Unrequited

He wrapped his hand around my waist. The moon to our left got foggier and foggier as my eyes fixated more and more onto his pretty,...

Rickshaw Guy

The auto driver nodded to my call Amidst the downpour and road dirt. I manifested my broke uni student face, Faced him and asked ‘Sir...

I Still Write Decent Literature

I sit back and stare at my screen in deep despair. Every ounce of poetic complexity had escaped me, and what’s left of my mangled brain...

Meta

I hate meta. In all earnestness, I hate meta. It’s just a bunch of jargon summing up to ‘I’ve run out of creativity’. It’s the most...

F(t)

Another you, another guy Another person telling me Life is amazing, deeds don’t matter; I love you. Life is amazing, I’ll believe it When...

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