It comes and fades 
But never really goes away,
It taps and tip-toes 
And weighs heavy on the heart,
Never tending to break apart.
The men at the table 
State that it's highly crucial 
To stay brisk and not vary 
From the agreed decision.
The agreed decision 
Seems purely arbitrary;
Humanity turns visibly frail 
As the men at the table 
Unanimously agree upon 
Something stained 
Is ...

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What does the night feel like 
To the ones who are away from home?
Does it resemble a dream 
Or does it sound like a song?
Does it bring back a memory 
That was tucked away all along? 

The night must be treating them 
Differently, with utmost care
For them to not drown into 
The feeling of being unloved.

The stars must be sounding like guitars,
And the moon must be the cowboy
Singi...

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The streets don't recognize
The struggles, they don't read 
The reason behind a dropping
Smile or a weakening spine. 
All they're invested in is 
Whether or not the 
Perfect looking ship sinks.
I urge you to break 
These widespread links 
And observe the faces,
The traces that they leave,
The stories that they weave;
A little sniffle, a little sigh 
And we're convinced that 
One has ...

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I've moved through the 
Chitter-chatter and it sounded 
Like one of those things 
That should've mattered.
I ignored the blatant reds 
And all that was said,
All for a human that seemed 
Righteous and utterly bold,
I was unflinchingly told 
Not to give ears to the feared
And too all those who meant dear.
I was blinded by the unsettling 
Festival of kites to have 
Unseen the unusual ha...

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I’ve broke in one too many times,
Shattered the glass and cracked the tiles,
Just to rewind, pause, play and smile
At the moments that I wanted to live twice.

To feel the lost caress on my forehead,
To live with the ones who are now dead,
To grab hold of a slow-drifting hand,
And pull it to the greener side of the land.

My sleep gives these ripples through dreams,
That’s when I pray f...

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In the room full of 
Stories and imaginations 
From across the world
That fit in the fine racks,
Some give the warmth 
Of that of a bonfire;
Like the perpetual fire cracks
That echo throughout the night,
There are a few racks that 
Caste uneven light. 

There are some books 
That carry in themselves 
The chapters that call for rain,
Pain is merely a blame,
The absence of any light a...

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Closeness in a bond
Might not actually be 
As what it really seems;
I can put on a gentle smile 
And never tend to show 
How my body isn't agile,
How my breath isn't steady 
When I think about having that talk 
That I thought I was ready for. 

The storm might not be looming 
But the thought of it happening 
Causes an apocalypse, so big 
That the brightest day of the year
Seems like ...

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I liked the way my shirt 
Misfit you in a beautiful manner;
Baggy, dripping, and yet hooked,
Almost like a short robe.
You wore it like you owned it,
Like you loved the smell of me,
Like you desired to hug the cloth
That was wrapped around me. 

I see it everyday, hanging in 
The most silent corner of my room,
Away from air, the bright sunlight,
And any kind harshness that'd 
Take awa...

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I see eyes peeping out the window
When I pass by the familiar house 
A few blocks away from my home,
And people find the peep very creepy,
There's sometimes a vague shadow 
And sometimes the whole presence of him,
I read the essence behind the peep;
I could never take him for a creep.
They see him now as fragile and brittle 
But I've seen him from when my feets were little;
I vividly rem...

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The darkness is meticulously silent,
It's the crickets that vent,
The howls that hoot 
And the bats that click
In a constant effort 
To keep the night sound 
And suppress the clock's ticks,
And yet, it's these creatures 
That are associated with horror 
And the beginning of something 
Very eerie and ghastly. 

The devil never made 
An attempt to manoeuvre 
But walked straight through...

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The daylight hides behind 
The opaque clouds sometimes 
And sometimes seeps through,
Somedays the rain takes a step back
And waits patiently for it's cue,
Like it takes pleasure 
In being controlled.

And in such intimate manner,
Out of all the worldly pleasures,
I take the pleasure in 
Thinking about you. 

Where my hands tremble
By the transparency of thoughts 
And my pen waits fo...

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I breathe in what you breathe out,
The smell of your breath 
Feels like homecoming,
The rhythm of your heartbeat 
Escorts me to a valley of peace.

I am a tree,
You fall in love with 
All the golds that you see,
The leaves, flowers, buds and seeds;
But baby oh baby,
How I wish you'd seen 
My roots reaching out to you,
How I wish you'd known 
The water in my eyes
Wasn't just dew. 

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Autumn dropped by
To check on the green 
And decided to stall 
For a little while 
Until there was orange
On pavements, roads, bridges,
And in parks in piles. 

I sat there, consuming
The change in nature 
And looked up to the 
Last part of green 
Before it was nowhere 
To be seen. 

The leaf was a tad lean
And was soon going to leave,
But it's story would forever 
Be safe with t...

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Some summer midnights 
Reminds me of the winter cold;
Thoughts too adamant to leave 
And rugs too heavy to fold. 
It's the frequent shivers 
That resembles November,
And on such nights,
The heart hates the mind 
For all that it remembers. 

Her hands drifting into another's,
And it hurts to see the firmness 
That was once firmly mine.
The bed calls but the silence haunts
At quarter p...

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Fallen pieces of wood collected 
And arranged neatly in a pit;
Some stood perfectly well 
While some were made to fit.

The fire waited impatiently 
For the woods to be soaked in oil
While bitter doings surfaced up
Causing the heart to recoil.

The cold wind stayed put 
To let the rest of the heart 
Be marinated by the bitterness 
That had univitedly given a start.

The bonfire stoo...

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I create on pages 
Of what's not been told,
The nature, being a diamond 
Finds solace in gold;
The sun, Indian laburnum 
And autumn leaves,
Sometimes brings out an admirer
And other times a thief.

I've seen chapters unfold
And have been a crucial part of them,
Except for the one where 
I let another take the limelight;
I often revisit that chapter 
As an audience, as a scout,
Or si...

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The brevity of the daytime 
Can be felt in the city streets
Where employees walk in a certain speed 
Calling it the "rush hour".

A beginner enters the competitive crowd 
And gets immediately humbled 
By the schedules, tasks and follow ups
Being spoken out so loud 
That they make room in his mind,
Pushing his confidence a little too far
To be able to immediately find. 

He takes a sea...

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I watch in retrospective lens
Piercing through the dense smoke,
Certain dramatic objects evoke
Certain vivid memories of the past.

Bitter made to feel sweet;
Fallen feather or intentionally plucked,
Nobody noticed, no one ever 
Was curious enough to know.

A keen-sighted bird watches a
Wrong touch made to feel right,
Does the sun have an account
Of the happenings of the night?

Blu...

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How beautiful is it to feel 
The moment before a touch,
The nervousness before a kiss,
The initiated small talks 
That were of a big deal;
An achievement that’d
Be written in the books,
In the form of poems 
That’d just begin to multiply 
And beautifully compile.

The one who believed was unlucky
And incapable to be loved,
Comes across the greatest form of love
For the very first tim...

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You stare at his thumping heart,
It’s rhythm and nervous smile 
Sweeps your insecurities aside,
His exceptionally wide arms
Makes you want to be wrapped 
But you wait for the 
Beautiful beginnings to unravel.

How far could you travel? 
How far is he willing to? 
All that you once expected
Is all that you now want to be;
There’s an urge to fill up the garden 
With all pastel coloured ...

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I used to believe that 
The wind would carry me 
And that I’d go with it’s flow,
But nothing really lifted me up
Until I rigorously learned 
To harness the wind.

I began confessing;
Letting the free flow of words
That were stuffed in 
The bottom of my heart.

I took the flights and hit the roads
Until my second thoughts
Were truly surmounted.

If I’d waited for the right time,
It...

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The men of wrath 
Banter and rant 
Next to the famed bar,
While the man inside 
Recites his years long poetry.

Amidst the sectored chaos,
The beauty of his work 
Seeps through the ruckus 
To an open window
Seeking ailment and cure.

One by one, the broken pieces 
Of a ceramic glass 
Come back to life,
As the hours of the night
Dim the harsh voices of the strife.

A nearly wasted...

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When the silent night glimmers,
And the farthest star shimmers
Before the procurement of pitch dark,
Eyes search for the embodiment of warmth 
And the heart pounds at the 
Growing boundaries of silence.

In such moments of dense gloominess,
Tense feeling reach culmination 
For the first time in years,
And as the clouds of distress 
Come together up above,
Souls begin to cling;
Her hea...

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Journey to the heaven’s gate begins
And I try to lift my hand 
To wave a final goodbye 
But it feel twice the size;
Failing to rise, claiming 
Not to be mine.

There’s almost little to 
No strength at the 
Bottom of my spine,
But I still stand anyway 
To watch him make his way,
While I, being his only connection,
Stand at the edge of the land 
Trying hard to say many things 
But fai...

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Their eyes don't meet with mine,

There's a full stop to the routine 

Chatter at quarter past nine,

An elderly heart whines

For the savings lost 

On fruitless mines,

I get to hear furious yells 

More than the temple bells,

It's a heartbreak weather altogether;

One by one, we lose all our feathers.

The food is served unequally

And there's more on my plate;

Th...

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A heated argument

Takes a drastic turn 

As things fade into black,

And as the white comes back,

One regretfully stands out 

The barricaded door,

And with utmost concern

Knocks and knocks and knocks

Expecting some response;

On the other side of the door, 

Water splashes and rinses

Blood, a lot of blood,

And the dreadful flood

Seaps through the door gap.

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As the morning goes into 

The arms of the evening,

And the sky turns pink,

Not all bonds stay linked;

One's wing kisses another's,

And the clock fails to cling,

And the time drops, a little too fast,

As two residents of air 

Fall from grace 

To forever rest 

On the earth's surface.

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I take the long way home 

After spending the evening with you.

I watch the city lights' contrast,

And the shadows that the 

Edifices effortlessly cast.

The wind carrying your love 

Follows me until I reach home,

And no matter what the cost,

I'd limitlessly spend every 

Pound and dollar and ruppee 

To witness this luminous feeling. 

I reckon there's no bet...

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Harsh spotlight penetrates 

Through the high tides

To track the underwater stars

And to store them in the jars. 

Gadgets drown and scatter

To gauge the deep underwater;

Keen cam-eyes spot some light

And share the resplendent sight. 

In the unravelling of fate, a pearl

That denies to reciprocate with 

The light is left alone in the water,

Only for it to li...

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I walk out into the lush green

To a tranquilizing Kargeen,

When a far gunshot shakes my soul

And the delicate trees lose their moles. 

In the presence of whose reign 

Is the humanity drowning in vain?

Some depend on War and Peace 

To realise the pragmatic fact that 

Conflicts can be dealt with ease,

While some still continued to tease,

Others relentlessly aimed t...

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Towards the far corner, 

An alluring kaleidoscopic spark

Catches my attention, and 

Besides the growing tension,

I hear a known voice. 

An out-of-the-world precipise 

Presents a familiar figure 

Who could overwhelm my heart.

Her unsurprised, unmoved eyes

Jesture that I was expected.

A gluesome lump in my throat

Lets the feeling float in silence

As she ...

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Once an untouched land;

An undisturbed beauty of sand,

Was wrapped in swathes of 

Yellow marked stripes

Indicating ownership and sale

And undisputed scale.

Bricks supported by scaffolds,

Molten metal poured in the moulds,

Before the arrival of winter

And the first wave of cold,

There was a tint of gold

That the builders could behold.

And under the veil...

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At the edge of the 

Apprehensive dark street,

Eyes often fail to meet

And in the moments 

When they fleetingly do,

The few tungsten lights 

Begin to constantly blink. 

The space for car parking 

Must've marked a lot of 

Departures and separation. 

Blur vision caused by droplets;

Rain isn't always the culprit,

But sometimes the eyes 

Well up and overflow ...

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In those fearless eyes

I spotted a pang of dread,

Closing the streak of tries

You finally bent the lead. 

Taking your bagful of stories

To the place where gravity ends,

You must be sharing memories 

With your long-lost friends.

Uncountable vivid memories 

Will forever be treasured,

In the loss of all and any hope,

Your words will be measured. 

All...

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Grief drops down my eyes 

In spotless disguise 

Into the winter's ice

Like the smoke from a cigarette 

That attempts to merge with the air.

The gloomy weather

That precipitates despair 

Tries to be less grey 

And a lot more fair;

Am I a frequently visiting guest 

To this benumbing season 

Or is it the other way around?

There's talk of sound healing 

But ...

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I stand before the threshold 

Of the dire circumstantial area,

Where the scent of curable drugs

Gives me a feeling of nausea. 

The long white corridor giving 

Room to sick and sickened patients,

Simultaneously tests the patience

Of related hearts living in suspence.

While the projected monitor-beeps

Fail to needfully and steadily beat,

Death nearly arrives a...

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His typing machine 

Makes a satisfying sound,

He tries to revisit something 

That was lost and never found,

The things that likely cage 

Are freed on the page,

Constructed and textured. 

He has mastered the act

Of ignoring the disturbances,

Any kind of noise, vocals, yelp,

Or an immediate ask for help

Goes into the abyss of ignorance.

Bringing out his ...

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There's a new birth of green

In the heavenly golden hour,

The finest that I've ever seen

Seeking a satisfactory pour.

The sun's out and about,

The clouds aren't in a rush,

A ray is absorbed by a trout

In the mid-morning hush. 

Melodies end the silence

When certain birds and flies

Breakout of the broad fence

To paint the panoramic sky.

A distant wh...

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Under the purple sky of love 

And intimacy, I find no fragility,

But only excuses and alibis;

There's sometimes you,

Trying hard to hide,

And there's sometimes I,

Trying hard to abide. 

Everytime my parents quarrel,

And toss up the word "divorce,"

I wish for it to never land;

I am constantly forced to believe 

That people are bound to leave,

And that behind...

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There's silence in the city,

Before the very first light,

And although I'm fully awake,

I still feel the essence of night.

Sleepless hours of thinking 

The absolute unpleasantness

Widespread transluscence in light

Like the clouds disliked the sight.

Expecting every acquaintance 

To be elevated on tranquillity

Would discompose and knock 

My own commensensi...

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There were a few words left unspoken,

The lawn with uneven grass 

And a window with cracked glass

Was fixed to spotless perfection,

Moody lights for the night

Were given undisturbed connection,

Crotchets were rewritten,

Wardrobe was diversified,

And a long-lost-friend 

Was dialed again,

A break in chain

To lay down the butterfly effect 

Hinting a probable mayhem...

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A week old sapling 

Almost weakens out of thirst

When a newly formed cloud bursts,

I, amongst all the other observants

Tend to look at it tenderly,

And learn that I'm in that 

Selfless place where an individual 

Or a group of considered minimalists

Do, and give, and never ask,

Even when it was never 

Their scheduled task. 

I rest my head 

In this endless ea...

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Calm like an unmoved pond,

Rage doesn't often respond,

Dwelling in a meditative state,

Unbothered of the twist of fate. 

Heart steady and disengaged,

Mind teleported to a different age

Where every other instigator 

Has turned into a solitary sage. 

I don't feel tamed or caged

Until someone rewinds the page

To the chapter of recklessness

Where I carried an...

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I see someone from time to time,

Thriving to be substantially fine;

Previously vivacious and evergreen,

Until the unpredictables were seen.

She sits alone on a mediocre bench,

Still, consumed by unknowables,

Unbothered by the world around

Like she's laying in a deserted trench.

There are healing cuts on her hand,

There are unhealed cuts on the tree,

They sta...

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There's a brighter side to her skin,

The one that has never 

Lessened her chance to win,

In life or otherwise,

She's never had to disguise,

In her illuminating presence

Even the suppressed 

Begin to gradually rise.

The eternally attached patch

Catches attention; side-eye glances,

Some curious and some peculiar,

But it doesn't give her fear,

She has won her ...

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North and South decided to meet 

After decades long, bitter conflict,

Diversity in culture captured the streets,

Although a few condescending ones 

Had irrational reasons to contradict. 

All was fun and the sun shun bright 

Above the ones who had once 

Put up an ugly fight. 

The city was sparkling in the daytime,

And even more so in the nights,

There was pro...

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Breaking heart is a doddle to some,

Some go along with the hum,

Their tune is unpleasantly cold,

And is worldwide sung and sold. 

A road that leads to nowhere,

You will find me walking there

With the great hope of a reunion;

Beyond the hill lives my companion.

I walk with a shunned ray above me,

But a fire inside my shelled heart,

And so, warmth comes easy 

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I doubt that the mustangs

Stay within the confines of a farm

In the middle of the night,

They must be curious to find

The unicorn with an angelic light.

The pitcher plant might at times 

Be tired of putting on a fight,

It must be laying off the sight

And resting it's head on the low grass.

The water looks still and bugged 

And contempt in the coloured glass,

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There's someone I often think about,

She resides in the centre of my heart,

And echoes in every corner of my mind,

There can never be a replacement

For meeting her was a beautiful accident 

That left more than just a dent.

Her absence has always been loud,

Her bodiless presence is serene 

Like the world behind the clouds,

I keep her in my imagination 

For she's u...

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Is this one of those final nights?

His cautious mind begins to think,

And the only existing light

Begins to perpetually blink. 

Is this one of those final nights

Where the blank page waits

For the last bit of the ink,

And the equivocal breaths

Insinuate that the lungs 

Are beginning to sink?

Is this one of those final nights

Where the evening sky

Sets ...

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