When we fell for each other, we each held a pot for love — both half-filled.During the relationship, I kept adding coins to his pot: coins of happiness, cheerfulness, calmness, and warmth.But he had a habit of removing the coins, not only from his own pot but from mine as well.Still, because I kept giving,Continue reading “Half a pot”
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Pain
I light candles and lamps,Look joyful as always,But cannot celebrate life,The way I’d like to.Because there’s so much pain,Almost unbearable to watchEverywhere I look. Ignorance is a bliss they say,But what use is ignorance,When that bliss is a lie,When you are nothing but blind,To all that I see.I see so much pain,Millions of people cryingContinue reading “Pain”
Born to be a woman
Jump higher,Reach for the sky.Or dive deeper,Reach for the bottom of the ocean.Or just keep walking,Until u reach that forested area that calls your soul.It’s not easy to jump over all the hurdles.The society puts up a lot of them.And some were put there by your parents.Jump.Or just skip and walk past them.You were bornContinue reading “Born to be a woman”
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