Category: Of Ink and Paper

There’s a faint knock on my door, loud thunders subsiding it in the empty house. Is it the girl I met in the bar yesterday? Or could be the lady who lives on the 7th floor who passes mischievous smiles every time we bump into the lift. I adjust my hair, give a quick visit […]

I keep forgetting thecolors and shapesmy mother’s eyes carry.So I trot out of my pretentiousbusy life in a metro,to take a walk down memory lane.And I always find the bright,engulfing eyes waiting for me there. I remember them being blue,darkening as you look deeper into them,shielding a world inside.So, I tried asking my motherwhat do […]

You sit in thestill corner of my home,strumming an untuned guitar.The air lay dead around you,I think the breeze doesn’t likeyou at all because it’s notwhat I crave for when you’re here. I wait for the pencil in your bunto fall off and unleash thosestorms my world is parched of.The beads of sweaton your forehead […]

1. Come back home,the door’s openjust turn the knoband my worldupside down. 2. You may not be the best of them all.I may not be the worst.But the entity we create togetherworks just fine.Hangs on every time. 3. Half of my life has been spent onchasing things I never hador craving for things I let […]

1. Don’t hate them. Hate creates cemented homes in the heart and often, your self-esteem isn’t strong enough to dismantle them. 2. Avoid fancy bars. Sometimes a whiff of that perfume is enough to drown in the whole bottle of memories. 3. Eat your favorite food. 4. Don’t read poetry. These poets feed off the […]

Let’s stop here. It’s alright.When love takes a toll on living, stop.I am perpetually torn betweennot loving you enough and nothating you just yet. And you, you could do without my loveor hatenot that any of it matters to you. Your eyes are already tired of my silhouette and mine are oftenopen in the middle […]

The sun is setting downbehind your back,with half a promise of comingagain tomorrow.And my fingers recite poemson your bare back, while you hum songs in thelanguages I have never heard of. The blue of the sky fallson your pervading hair, making them a shade of unknown origins, a shade belonging to surreal worlds.I wonder if […]

i) The first time I saw you, the universe swallowed my whole world and spat you out. ii) And you, sobbing at the train station, weight of diamond ring crushing your world, saw me with those eyes. Eyes made to destroy worlds. Devour galaxies. iii) You’d always remove the ring before entering my house and […]

1. There is a subtle difference between loving someone and convincing your heart to love someone. 2. Pain is temporary. Time heals it all.Damage is permanent. Time reveals it all. 3. Sad smiles cover broken parts more than layers of skins will ever do. Skin of mine. Yours. Skins of girls who came after you. […]

1. Maybe you would have stayed ifI stopped youand maybeI would have run back home if you didn’t leave.And now the empty home cries for someone to return,envying the graveyard and its seldom hosting. 2. Maybe I should have loved youmore than loving the notion of love,and maybeyou could have cared about it.And now notions lie abandonedall over […]