Thursday, 27 August 2020

Weathering Away

 

It scares me sometimes on how little do I remember of the time before you.

Though at times I feel that perhaps losing much of past, wagering it against spending time with you was worth it. It far outweighs anything.

They tell me that I should just take it easy. It might take some time to recover, for it must be bitter, even though I never felt that bitter aftertaste. I wonder why, it is indeed awkward isn’t it? That lump in your stomach, the clot in your heart and then everything becomes silent which takes me to places.

Places like the silence before the incumbent rain.

I wonder why you wouldn’t look me into the eyes then, and my enquiry only made you angry. You told me that you were running late.

The station was buzzing with swarming heads. The crowd pushed in to avoid the rain while I watched you move away. But the damning thing was your pace, and it dawned upon me then that I knew too much about you.

The clouds broke loose and I had no strength to grip on to present. You held an umbrella, yet you held it closed, carrying it by your side as you splashed away under those broken night lights. So, I ran, to outrun your poor camouflage. I couldn’t hide, and I didn’t mind if I sucked. All I knew that I have to catch you now.

I hugged you on a rainy night on the street corner when everyone was in a hurry. Regardless of the state of the universe, I remember that there was silence in that moment, an agreement for silence in between us, except for the beating hearts, in synchrony and finely intertwined.

You may call it being seeping into nostalgia but perhaps that is the feeling which never goes away. And yes, the silence prevails, as I found you slowly drifting away.

Pieces of rocks slowly weather away in the carnival of rust, as at this precipitance I find you scattered everywhere, seeing you reflected in my eyes.

Living separately, the sky that seemed to shine bright once, has started to cry in unison again.

Yet, it is only the corner of the heart that has not changed.

Until it withers away.

Picture Credits: Memories of Fall
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Tuesday, 18 August 2020

Being Your Friend


Let’s be very honest here. Making friends is quite difficult; at least that is for me.

So, what do we do then?

The one advice was to put yourself out there in the friendship market and to try and explore. Figuring out. You never know, things might just work out.

Or it can turn out to be a nightmare which leads to a state that you have to feed into your nostalgia to make yourself feel better.

Perhaps it is in the abstraction of the definition of being a friend that confuses me, as things have had become so materialistic. I fail to perceive why don’t we see the spiritual value?

All these thoughts brimmed my mind as stark self-reflection when I did want to talk to you.

You see, it all started when I saw you at the library, being by yourself, peering into the notes in your laptop and scribbling and revising onto your notebook with vicious seriousness.

Your meticulous use of the pencil to fix your hair, to ensure that the strands don’t keep falling on your face, and not disturbing your gaze as you adjust your spectacles with your small tender arms was anything but a nice sight to have; especially in an environment where silence is the norm.

That was perhaps it, the silence, that it unraveled in me the feeling, smiting me slowly as I kept coming back every day to see you perform your chores. You would notice me sometimes, but then I would quickly shift my gaze away or pin my head on my book, yet, I never had the courage to get up and talk to you.

A feeling of a binding force repelling one against the move. Makes one think on why it is so difficult talk to someone.

Though smitten by your appearance, I knew nothing about you. Hence, I would only like to know you. But that is the problem isn’t it? The synchronization of the heart and mind are not the same for most of the time and definitely, you don’t want to creep the other person out.

Yet, the inner yearning to quench the soul, and to fulfil the thirst of information, forces you to take impulsive decisions.

That day when the bell struck at noon, our eyes finally met for a brief time, and then I decided that I would not shift my gaze this time. And you kept staring at me, forcing a wry smile at the corner of your face, enough to push me out of my space.

I knew then that I had to do something about it. Getting up and moving in nervous motion, I made my way towards you, while you stayed affixed with a grin on your face. Impulsiveness does not tell you on how to frame your introductions, yet it could only work in mysterious ways.

Hence, I said:

“Can we be friends?”


Credits: HutaChan

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Saturday, 6 June 2020

A Hundred Meters


Last night I was wide awake, for the perennial anxiety did not let me sleep.

Have you ever been in a time when there is fear all around and you don’t know what to fear exactly? Well, for me, it is just as hard to comprehend. Perhaps it is all due to being amidst these trying times. I made myself believe so.

The words circled in my brain, like a loop, spinning all the time, those of which I tried to debunk at first, but slowly has grown into me. Now, I just cannot un-see its existence, the crisis is real. Or perhaps I am just over reacting.

At this time, who wouldn’t? is all I can apprise myself.

Me, myself, being by myself; cause that’s all what is there to say and feel right now.

Waking up on a cold bed, from sleepless nights and cigarettes, I just couldn’t perceive that this feeling would ever occur to me. We talk every day, but now that is just not enough. Yet, I fear that if I ever come close to you, your heart would go sick from the tar on my lips.

They say that after when all this is over, we would perhaps become better human beings, learn something new. But I know that apart from talking to you, I would only be engrossed into my daily dose of Internet. What a natural disaster!

Standing at the window, peering over to the other side of the road, I look over to that familiar sight of yours, doing what has now become your daily chore. Those activities might be same for you but I might have never noticed them before, hence I stay engrossed in them for long. And you there from afar would look at me, catching me in the act and would show me faces that would make me laugh. If only I could be there with you right now!

I should probably get some help, because this is at times ridiculous; to be so far, yet be so close. But then I feel where would I go during this time rather than to stay locked in my home? With this state, I can't control myself. Yes, I'm addicted to the hell. Oh, baby, yes, you are so bad for my health.

So, I took out my guitar to sing our only song. Sitting by the window I strum some lines, hoping that you would be able to hear those words of mine. Leaning on the frame, I see you looking at me still, assuring me that it will all be alright.

Struggling to say those words to you, my heart cries them out to you saying I miss you.

And in your reassuring eyes and that luring smile of yours you would say I miss you too.

I miss you by my side, the distance feels like miles.

The distance between you and I, is at a hundred meters long. A hundred meters which has never felt so far.


Credits: ivanoski

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Monday, 1 June 2020

Every Night


It is 3 am and I am standing on the terrace, leaning on the barricade, holding a cup of tea while letting out a deep sigh. While gazing at the stars, I pull my blanket close to my chest, holding on too tight at times.

Heads up in the sky, embracing the chilly wind, I breathe in the air, watching the distant clouds in steady motion. And in the midst of the clouds, I see the shining full moon, with me feeling relatively close, close to breaking down, because I feel so alone.

I yell at the sky, scream at the world, looking for answers that are unknown. Heaven only knows where you are now.

Perhaps you are far away, like a star, out in the cosmos. The beauty that I can only see from afar. It hurts to know how lovely you are, as you are too far away to hold but close enough to break my heart.

Every night I think of you now. Time flows like tears, drowning in the ocean, only to seek an island in your arms.

They say that space and time are interwoven. So, I think of making a time machine to back to a time, unlike any other time for us to be together forever. Yet, I can’t go back now. I can’t escape the reality.

Every night I am here contemplating and then retiring myself, waiting for another night.

I stay up all night, looking at the ceiling above, changing its colors from dusk to dawn, thinking to sleep a while and to dream with you. But dreams are for fools I thought. I stay awake to be with you. Listening to your voice, seeing by my side, I tell myself that I am alright.

Gaping at your face, looking at your gleaming eyes, I feel that I never got the chance, to say one last goodbye.

You would say that I got to move on and I would then say that it hurts to try.

How do I love? How do I love again?

Playing our song, at this time of the night, I sway my arms around to dance with you, smiling, while looking at you.

Times that I cannot change does not matter, as with you at this time I stay engrossed.

Every night I hear our song, for I miss you the most.

Every night I am dancing with your ghost.

Source: elysii-campi

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Sunday, 12 April 2020

Drumbeats and Thunderstorms



There is a moment in time for oneself when Love is felt.

But this phenomenon could not be tracked by normal methods. No matter how much you try to search for it, it never shows again once it’s all said and done!

So, where did the love go?

He did not know.

He has been waiting for this, for the sunlight to shine and in the perfect time.

All I need is one, he felt.

There are things that don’t go according to how you imagined, but that doesn’t matter now.

Looking at the horizon with the sea splashing its tumultuous waves off shore, he felt disengaged from the world. His state resembled the clouds above, detached; detached and very different from ours, living in the realms of fantasy, creating an illusion of activity in the placid atmosphere, as they morph into numerous forms before they finally disappear from the sky.

Reality surpasses the imagination at times.

Looking away and closing his eyes, he chuckles while breathing the air around, feeling his battered wings which are not so strong enough to dance in the sky.

He recollects the time when he did not know how to fly in the sky, yet he still outstretched his wings to the heavens, with one hand in the air and another holding the hand of his significant other. Love was felt then!

He heard their friends' cheers; the winds were laughing though calling them immature.

With the passion bursting from their hearts, the adventure they drew in their lungs; they gave power into their wings, letting them soar through the heavens.

The dazzling stars were inviting them to fly high in the sky.

The sun was shining brightly, the beats of nature were bustling through the atmosphere around them, as they swayed and danced with overjoy, like a parade, filling their hearts with passion of love for each other.

He would say “I would make you the queen of everything you see; ‘will put you up on the map, ‘will cure you off disease”

And she would look at him smiling with eyes glistening with joy and love.

But sunshine would not have lasted long amidst the dark water bearing clouds.

Covering the sun and the moon, they prevent their light to reach the earth, the impurities covering the intelligence and preventing its light to reach the mind.

Mind, body and spirit share a home giving it an identity. When this identity is not taken care off, it gives rise to suffering.

The dark clouds have shaken and transformed their identity.

There is so much strangeness and terror around that the transformed identity has trouble orienting. Shaking his head, he wondered if it is all a dream, if this is all real.

Is it time for him to wake up? But does she want to wake up?

They could not fathom to what was happening.

Their identity felt like it was being ripped apart. The body and mind were struggling to give identity what it needs. They weren't conditioned to run in these conditions.

The Universe watches them to run out of juice and collapse into the abyss far away from each other.

Here, lying in the ashes, his soul cries out, for he could not find his eternal love. His love being lost in the shadows!

He lay there hence beside the sea, lost in his thoughts while watching the clouds.

His mind was trying to look inside, for a fix. But mind couldn’t fix it alone though, for his identity is lost.

The cloud comes through with cracking thunder, raining, as his eyes were moist with tears rolling down his face. His spirit tires to calm down with the synchronizing waves of the sea, warming himself on the memory of the connection.

He looks over towards the horizon again. The clouds were trying their best to hide the Moon from the Sea. The Moon and Sea meet every night to fulfill their eternal love. Overjoyed by his presence, she dances over the expanse. Their love generating waves as high as possible, only so that they could feel other in their arms. They make this effort every day in the hope of staying together with each other for ever.

The universe watches in silence, perhaps the thunder is its way of making its presence felt. But that does not make the love of Moon and the Sea any less.

Lightning struck soon as the expanse lit up to the dance of the Universe. The rumbling and thunder above followed by the lightning created a beautiful symphony, descending into his mind like a new life for a flower to be born.

With the divine communication, his body started to reform, his wings fluttered in the storm.

His mind, spirit and body were all healing, his identity shaping back together.

He feels he can do this, for he would not be afraid of the thunderclouds, the dark black clouds!

He thanks the Moon and the Sea for helping him guide through the gloom, the storm. They reciprocated in their regards in the clear night sky as the dark clouds slowly dissipated in the vast expanse.

The love of them will continue for eternity and so will the love of him for her in his heart.

Source: Tina
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Friday, 31 January 2020

I am Invincible




Let’s start with a short story.

Lucy fell in front of the train; she screamed out for help,
“Help me! I don’t want to die this way!"
So, Luke came running over and slit her throat instead.



Funny?
No?

Many won’t find this as remotely funny as the many who would.

But it does help create a clear division; a division of opinion, on morality, on varied levels of thinking.

It induces Chaos!

You see, the world is filled with chaos, as is our everyday life!

It starts with the moment we open our eyes till the time we call it a day.

And with this chaos all around, everyone is tired of something.

You know why?

Cause real life is hard, on everyone.

Since everyone is fighting with each other, I feel sometimes that

When all the conversation’s been dried up,
When there is no one to piss off,
When there is nothing left to lie about, and,
When there is nothing left to destroy,

Are you lost?

Do you feel lost?

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