Sunflower
The petals of the dead . . . Caught under the dried ground The tired bud unfurls and climbs, A slow decent towards the pale glow The fading promise of light. Twisting, bending, and shifting through the soil, Leaping towards the stray droplets in hunger, Undeterred by the shaking and rumbling ground. The bud peeked […]
3 Things That Don’t Make You A Better Human
A potato is a potato . . . There are no guides or any sort of checklists that tell us or inform us on how to be better humans, but I guess after a certain level of observations and pain staking trial and error methods we kind of learn how NOT to be better humans. […]
3 Books I Did Not Expect To Enjoy
An unexpected gift of words . . . I am picky, very picky about the choices of my books. I love to read but something about the book must call me otherwise I usually keep pushing it away. This same stubbornness made many a friend of mine to stop or at least hesitate before pitching […]
The 3 Toxic Entities You Get To Come Across And How To Avoid Them
….or something along those lines Crowds are difficult to manage, it’s too many people, too many emotions, too much everything to be honest. If I could, I would dig a giant hole, crawl inside and call it a day. Anyone who says they love to party, is a liar. Who likes to be voluntarily around […]
A Portrait Of You
An image built in echoes . . . Souls and songs Lay entwined in leaves A garden so bountiful Grew within me, Red tulips fell from my lips As I declared my acceptance With a kiss. You were made of flowers A potpourri of sentiments so rich, Dripping with carnations, A vibrant red. An […]
The Cycle CH4 : The Burning
Blood. Everything was just blood and noise. I felt disconnected from it all as though this wasn’t happening to me, I was a mere spectator. I felt irritated at all the noise, why couldn’t mother stop her incessant screaming? But where was I? What was happening? And just with that I was pulled right back […]
The Cycle CH3 : The Harvesting
Crops are replaceable but humans are not. Slowly over time with enough patience they can be replaced but humans cannot. I learned this lesson over the duration of one week. It seems easy enough to remember but it took me a while to recall it. The forest reminded me of it. … The Collector was […]
The Cycle CH2 : The Weeding
The scent of fire isn’t something you can get rid of easily. It’s ashy essence coats the back of your throat and manages to stay there for quite some time. I stood there looking out from my window at the grim site below, the land was illuminated in reds and oranges and a cloud of […]
The Cycle CH1 : The Sowing
My family was never satisfied. They hunted for perfection, so much so that we ran out of land but never wants. We were a family of farmers you see, my dad calls us agriculture specialists, a fancy word but farmer is what we were. We spent the entire day staring at an empty patch of […]
A Hypothesis Of Emotions
Untold threads of the unspoken . . . The scent of petrichor, The intense heat, The ashes of your emotions Tasted so sweet A bitterness I consumed With a hungry need. Colored upon your face with eager words A book I could have read a thousand times over, Unexpressed and unsaid A story told […]
