Friday 26 June 2015

Tragic Ink


She scratched and she clawed,
scarring her skin,
needing to erase the memory of him from the outside
just like she did within.
Tears ran down and joined streams of the water
that flowed from her head and onto her skin.
The water flowed eventually into the drain
but the ink of his name, on her skin, remained
'permanent' they'd said, and 'permanent' she thought they'd be
But she should have guessed he was 'temporary'.
She's scraping away at her skin, her nails piercing painfully
her sobs bounce off the bathroom walls
but no one, no one hears her silent calls,
calls to set her free from the mark
the mark she had committed to
one that haunts, come the dusk and dark.
Now he's got a hold on her skin, if not her heart within
and it scares her how she can't undo, what she once did on a whim.
He's gone and along with him he took her sanity.
she sits before her mirror, but no longer for vanity.
She sits staring at the dark ink in her reflection hung on the wall
crying softly and to herself, "Mirror, Mirror, who's the ugliest of them all?"

Thursday 18 June 2015

Take it to Heart


She takes everything to heart
and nothing you do, can stop her
why would it?
she is ruled by her emotions
a slave to her heart
and she has found it's a safe place to be at times
and at all other times it's waiting to throw her into the strom
yet she trusts it enough to surrender.
Her heart is her captor and she is ruled by it's mood swings and tantrums
why does she put up with it?
cause it knows her better than anyone claims to.
It's a mirror to her thoughts and a guide to her dreams
It will never stop her from pursuing whats best for her
and it will never stop her from risking her heart for it either
even if it means damaging her heart in the bargain.
Self-sacrificing is what it is.
At the expense of getting hurt, it gains experience to deal with those who bring pain
She is all about 'feeling',
and feeling strongly about anything and everything on the face of the earth.
She may be fragile, and often naive
but she's got her head on her shoulders and her heart on her sleeve
So what if she takes it all to heart?
At least she feels, she knows what she feels
and she's learned to deal.
You, dear child, is who she worries about
for you know not what's on your mind
you know not how, to your heart, be kind
She looks to you with eyes of concern
because it is your hearts desires you take time to learn
She's no loser here for feeling so much at once
It is you who is at loss, who lacks feeling
who will spiral down into nothingness, your soul reeling
Take it to heart I say,
feel what you need to, even if it aches
It is better to feel than to ignore and push away
better to have your heart to hold on to, when your world goes astray
Stop keeping your emotions at bay
that you learn to accept them and take them to heart, I pray.
I fear for you if you're on the pathway to your heart's destruction
If you judge people like me for feeling something
for you'll never know passion, you'll never have purpose
Your heart will grow cold to the world and it's life
Stop yourself now, before you lose all ability to feel,
before you lose touch of Love and what's real.

Wednesday 17 June 2015

Daughter of the Rain


While everyone sees dark clouds and dull skies
she walks with her head held high
allowing not, herself, a moment of sadness
strolling on the moist earth with a sweet smile
sweet tears fall from the heavens that cry
for all humanity. That thunder, a disguised sigh.
but she has a sparkle in her eyes
they shine through the heavy curtain of water
while similar sparks roar scary and loud
between cloud to cloud
she hears nothing within her,
her racing mind silenced by the rain.
A calm and quite she feels on the inside
like the first showers took with it her pain
She doesn't curse it even though it brings more inconvenience to many
to her, its a blessing, her favorite time of year.
while passers by grumble about the slush and the mess
she's grateful for the smell of wet earth
It's not that she cares for sun-light any less
but the rain always gave her solace
It's coolness like an understanding caress
She spends many a day walking aimlessly in the rain
wanting only the earths company in every quiet lane
as tiny drops make their way down her skin,
she knows for a fact, this is her infinite moment, her win
there will be no other feeling that could bring her this joy
no new gadget, clothes or charm of a good looking boy
The rain, her friend and only confidante
3 months in her company will do wonders to her heart
and hopefully ready her for the storm to come
when the clouds clear out and the atmosphere gets numb
While everyone now sees dark and dull skies
she walks through puddles with awe in here eyes.

Thursday 11 June 2015

Unfreedom- Special Screening

While one is kidnapped and tortured, the other elopes for love. The former, a liberal Muslim scholar is silenced for what he believes in, the latter voices her love for someone of the same sex.

In both cases, un-freedom weighs down heavily on them, and their struggle against it is hard hitting, and tragically, a reality in the world today.


Watch Unfreedom at a special screening :

 Venue: 'The Hive - Mumbai' 
Date: 13th of  June' 2015 
Time: 4.30 pm to 7.30 pm

Tuesday 9 June 2015

Grounded and Uplifting: My Top 10 Life Principles

Grounded and Uplifting: My Top 10 Life Principles: So here are 10 principles I live by and I'm sharing this with you because it's the reason I am emotionally content. I've had a...

Thursday 4 June 2015

If We Fall, We Fall Together


Drowning
Engulfed by the waves
Slowly sinking deeper and deeper
And deeper I fall, pulled in
Into an abyss unending
Losing my breath, losing my will
Falling until
Until my feet touch the bed
Flying,
Lifted yet sinking hard and fast
No safeguard against this
This ocean in which I was cast
Losing my all, giving it up
Up to the ripples that surround
Wishing always to hear that sound
Of the thrum of a heart of the one who's holding my hand
Sinking with me
Faster than sinking sand
And all that adrenaline inside me
Urging me to escape
I ignore it
She is fate, my fate
So if we drown, we drown together, falling deeper, Sinking,
forever

Cravings


Call me greedy, call me selfish,
but I crave you
I crave you in the most innocent manner.
I long to walk aimlessly with you down the streets,
even if all we have to talk about is nothing,
I long to hold your hand, small and tender in my grasp
for as long as eternity lasts.
Every morning I wake with you on my mind,
every dusk until dawn I dream you as mine.
What I want is nothing more,
than for the love we share to never turn sore,
For 'change'  to never get in our way,
even through it happens all day, everyday.
I can handle the seasons going by,
and friends no longer staying nigh
but with you, love,
nightmares are synonymous with goodbye.
Longing has never known a love like mine,
my heart longs to be with yours, forever in time.
I crave to study you more and more
even if I exhaust you of everything there is to know.
I desire you, all of you,
all your traits and all your flaws,
imperfections and internal wars,
I desire to belong,
I long to be yours.