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Rest in peace dear Tanmay
Photo by Magova G on Pexels.com It’s with a heavy heart that I tell you that my close friend and fellow blogger Tanmay Philip has passed away. He died yesterday, and his family held the funeral today. I didn’t attend … Read the rest Continue reading
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Grunge
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com You took an antihistamine for a cold yesterday and fell out of love with grunge. The attitude, the revolution, the drop-D tuning, and the flannel and jeans no longer appealed to you. The downer dried … Read the rest Continue reading
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When nothing is enough
Trigger warning: This poem, though fictional deals with severe depression, suicide, grief. I visited you in the hospital yesterday. You’d survived your second attempt, much more gruesome than the first. People from church who never asked you how you were… Read the rest Continue reading
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Yesterday
Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com All that we saw and knew we no longer seem to know as we sit, hands clasped, the crimson twilight caressing the contours of our aged, pockmarked faces. Time is a fickle thing, tossing … Read the rest Continue reading
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Anaesthetised
Photo by Rene Asmussen on Pexels.com While they carted me away in the ambulance, I shouted out verses from the Bible, and held up my hands like Moses did, hoping for a victory. But something told the wild geese, it … Read the rest Continue reading
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Facade
Photo by Jonathan Córdova R on Pexels.com You tried defying convention while chained to its altar. Didn’t you realise that you were always a sacrifice? You can’t kill a raging bull by swatting it. When you’re in the brazen bull,… Read the rest Continue reading
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Alone
There are a million galaxies, a trillion stars and tens of thousands of habitable planets. So, we send signals out, hoping some alien civilisation will catch them and begin communication with us, possibly inviting us to join a federation they … Read the rest Continue reading
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Three Simple Sonnets
Photo by antonio filigno on Pexels.com A simple man I saw a blazing sign in bloodless skies! And so, I must obey! The shields they paint! We won the war! I must erase the taint! Both foolish men, and dirty … Read the rest Continue reading
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All we ever had
Photo by Bob Ward on Pexels.com Trigger warning When I married you, I didn’t think of bliss, but something steady through the trials, the clock ticking and our stars gently glowing, giving us what we needed, but time surprised me … Read the rest Continue reading
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On Emptiness
Maybe it sprouted from some festering wound in the earth in some mephitic cave and travelled thousands of miles, guided by dark hands to settle on me or perhaps it’s inherent, some faulty code in the matrix of my mind,… Read the rest Continue reading
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For sale
Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko on Pexels.com I plan on selling my sorrow to the nearest idiot who wants to write. I can get rich while he treats sadness like an aphrodisiac, making love to a muse with blades for thighs. … Read the rest Continue reading
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