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Awakening

2013-05-20T00:21:00.001-07:00

When everything seems to be in place, you are missing out on something else. The master penetrated the silence that filled the room with these words. Just when I was getting comfortable, thought a disciple. Now what, thought another. Little did they realise that they were experiencing what the master spoke.

Reminiscence

2013-05-17T22:50:00.001-07:00

Never live with your memories.

They can alter your reality beyond repair.

For tears of yesterday are stale.

So are the tales.

The wounds open up when you least expect.

Never to heal again no matter what.

Past becomes present and nothing remains.

For memories haunt, taunt and what not.

No escape

2013-05-16T04:31:00.001-07:00

I am your ego, obey me. He tried to ignore that nagging voice emerging from deep inside his mind. The more he tried to ignore it, the louder it became. So loud that the whole world echoed those words. He resisted, like an army outnumbered by their enemy. He tried to hide. He tried to mute the world. But everyone and everywhere the voice followed.

I

2013-05-15T03:46:00.001-07:00

I am fighting a new battle everyday. One day I am are the friend. One day I am the foe. Somedays I am the mediator. Other days I am the battle field. The battle rages on, no matter what.

Words

2013-05-14T03:09:00.001-07:00

He waited for the words to form the sentence. Right now they were like colourful beads in a kaleidoscope. He watched them form myriad patterns like a dictionary on LSD.

Stalker

2013-05-13T10:19:00.001-07:00

I hate my shadow. It stalks me everywhere. At times I am confused as to whether I am the shadow. So now I follow my shadow. I think it's scared of me.

Phobia

2013-05-08T23:29:00.001-07:00

The arachnid hid in his frontal lobes. It was always there. Injecting him with steady doses of ego, pride and vindictiveness as and when required. He feared that if he let it perish then he will be no more than an empty carapace.

Zoo

2013-05-08T03:13:00.001-07:00

Don't hold back the tears

Don't hold back the laughter and happiness

Don't hold back your emotions

For you are being watched

Watched like a caged exotic wild animal

That's meant to entertain everyone

So prance when you can

Scream your heart out when you want

Even if you're dead inside

Lament

2013-05-07T04:26:00.001-07:00

I have buried your brothers, father.

I buried you first and then them.

It's my duty to see you all off and I have done it well.

Till we meet again, bless this son.

Humanus

2013-05-02T02:27:00.001-07:00

When you have the words, say it.

For words are volatile and will soon disappear in to silence.

But sometimes silence also speaks volumes, they say.

Oh these humans are a crazy lot.

Advice

2013-05-01T06:52:00.001-07:00

When burying the dear departed

Dig deep, for memories can surface unexpectedly

Bringing everything back to you

Duct tape

2013-04-29T04:39:00.001-07:00

The sticky tape was waiting

It wanted someone to stick on to

Sadly no one stuck on

Legend

2013-04-27T07:30:00.001-07:00

Lord Vishnu washed up on this beach ages ago. Maybe he liked the beach and its towering cliffs. Maybe he was too stoned to care.

Eulogy

2013-04-25T05:19:00.001-07:00

I am dead, just like you. We are both dead like the world we used to
inhabit. Now without you I have nothing to live for. I am just a
shadow without a body. A tree with no roots. I just died with you.

Hope

2013-04-24T02:45:00.001-07:00

A cloud pregnant with rain

Cried over the arid plains of hell

She delivers hope, cried some

Flip

2013-04-24T02:37:00.001-07:00

The story ends here. The reader can now shut the book and move on to another. I will wait patiently for another one to come along and peep into my story again. Till then, its goodbye.

Downpour

2013-04-22T00:08:00.001-07:00

It was raining memories as the raindrops rattled the window panes. He was drenched like the lonely statue in the garden. Only his moist eyes gave him away.

Pen

2013-04-19T04:28:00.001-07:00

His hands were bleeding blue. He stared at the blue in wonderment. He wanted to stop it but he couldn't. He knew it was his calling.

Surreal

2013-04-19T00:02:00.001-07:00

Somewhere in the dark woods of my mind a memory crowed. The winds of sorrow rustled the leaves. The dawn of reality was near. I shut my eyes to dream another dream.

Ponder

2013-04-18T01:34:00.001-07:00

Will the first child's sadness be more, if it lost a parent? Or is it the other way around? The question just hung there in the syrupy silence. Have you thought about it? Will younger siblings feel sadder as their memories will be fresh?

Bye

2013-04-16T09:17:00.001-07:00

Memory claimed another face, today. Some say it's life. Others say it's the end. I think it's neither.

Deja vu

2013-04-15T06:54:00.001-07:00

The cicadas cried themselves hoarse at the silence. Oblivion stretched like a gravel snake on the valley. The trees stood guard as he stepped on that path to nowhere.

Walled

2013-04-06T06:31:00.001-07:00

They stared at the silence like they would at a stone wall. It was an imposing structure that cut them off from the world. They had built it one brick at a time over every disagreement, every lie, every taunt, every misunderstanding and what not. Now it was too late for them to escape or ignore it. Suddenly they became two souls united by the same predicament. Two bodies and a monolithic silence.

Soliloquy

2013-04-04T23:32:00.001-07:00

I can't let you escape.

Why not?

You will hurt everyone and in the process hurt me as well.

How can I?

You are not aware of what you can do.

But, I am just your memory.

Surreal

2013-04-03T06:12:00.001-07:00

His eyes were bleeding. Are you crying, asked the blind man. No I am reminiscing, he answered. The silence that followed filled their hearts with happiness.