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• February 24, 2018

  Greatest fear

  I’m scared of me, My dreams so wild My energy so reckless My thirst so addictive. I’m scared of me, my slippery tongue, my fuming anger, my fidgeting hands lest I break things worse I break hearts worst I break people. I’m scared of me, my vivid limitations, my vague aspirations. I want to be […]
• February 24, 2018

  Pale light dreams

  My mamma says we are poor, I have to pray for a meal everyday. My paapa works on a rented field, I have to pray for days without debts. My sister has mehendi on her hands, I have to pray for a groom who asks less dowry. This is my life everyday. These are my […]
• February 24, 2018

  For so long

  For so long The politicians in my country Have been dressing up in white. Some even in saffron, green and blue. But peace, sadly, is not in their agenda. Tolerance, outdated, is not in their principles. Do you know how easily they trade My nation’s pride and honor For pleasing their vote banks? Do you […]
• February 24, 2018

  Home

  The plain glass windows I washed with soap and sponge. The long balconies I scrubbed for a day’s meal as wage. The warm roof tops I sat down to write my poems. The old gulmohar Who greeted me with a mother’s love. The cold cement steps Where I lay down to see my biggest dreams. […]
• February 24, 2018

  Tonight

  I wonder if he ate dinner. I skipped mine just in case. I wonder if he had fallen asleep already. I’m still wide awake and stirring. He makes me so sad to sit alone in the kitchen tonight. I can’t hear him doing his laundry next door. I read a book on a father and […]