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I love how a still freezes a moment, and how deep even an ordinary thing can look once it's frozen. The words mattered as much as the pictures, so they're here too.

So much more to say

And even more to listen.

I sit in solitude and wonder,

Was it because of the limited time

Or because of other priorities.

But it is still too early to say

It's too soon to come to a conclusion

Maybe time have a different plan altogether

Or maybe those other priorities will stand strong,

long enough to finish everything.

The universe always finds a funny way to do things

And maybe this will be delightfully funny

I hope :)

and the absurdity of me ... writing this.

February 2022

The default fallback

October 2021

प्रेम मंदिर, वृन्दावन

August 2021

The city at night

June 2021

I understand,

Because that's what i do

When things become unbearable to deal with

When you don't feel like talking for days

When you are unsure of your position in this world

Or when you simply can't choose between butterscotch and chocolate

Just remember one thing

You are not alone,

I am with you ... always

And

I understand

Because that's what i do

June 2021

...and if someone would have screamed my name I wouldn’t have heard for I’ve said goodbye so many times in my short life that farewells are a muscular task and I’ve taught them well.

There’s a place by the side of the railway near the lake where I grew up and I used to go there to burry things and start anew.

I used to go there to say goodbye.

I was young and did not know many people but I had hidden things inside that I never dared to show and in silence I tried to kill them,

one way or the other,

leaving sin on my body

scrubbing tears off with salt

and I built my rituals in farewells.

Endings I still cling to.

Then days passed by and I spent them with my work

and now I’m writing letters I will never dare to send.

But there is this one day every year or so

when the burden gets too heavy

and I collect my belongings I no longer need

and make my way to the ocean to burn and drown and start anew

and it is quite wonderful, setting fire to my chains and flames on written words

and I stand there, starring deep into the heat until they’re all gone.

Nothing left to hold me back.

November 2020

"Well, Now,

If little by little you stop loving me i shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly you forget me do not look for me , for i shall already have forgotten you.

If you it think long and mad , the wind of banners that passes through my life and you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where i have roots ,

remember that on that day , at that hour , i shall lift my arm and my roots will set off to seek another land" - Pablo neurda , if you forget me

After Pablo Neruda, “If You Forget Me”

Delhi, India · June 2020

When ends meets,

From the make believe paradise

To this implausible world,

for a brief time

or through a little incident,

In that instance

One truly starts to grasp

the enormity of life,

as everything fades for that moment

and only the sense of smile is left.

Only for that tick of the clock

one has found the 'Happy'. .

April 2020

Mein kaadam kaadam badalta hu yahi... Ye zindgi badalti hi nahi...

March 2020

Comes the tipping point in life, when we decide to a ‘stop and search’ and our emotional police bring us to a standstill. This allows us to scan all the little details in the spectrum of our being; scour all fuzzy or cryptic elements that are floating around in our mind and restore the fault lines in the cluttered tale of our life.

("The world was somewhere else") -Erik Pevernagie

December 2019

It's been way to much now,

He don't want to hold it inside anymore.

For the pain he carry inside him

Is bigger than his stomach.

For the worries he carry inside him

Are heavier than his own weight.

He don't want to hold it anymore,

He don't want to feel it anymore.

The bird who dreamt of flying in freedom

is stuck in strom somewhere.

The idolizer who was a firm believer

is loosing hope now,

He has been for quite a while now.

This all is a scam,

This all is a conspiracy.

Ceaser is in danger now,

He needs a savior.

December 2019

Life will break you.

Nobody can protect you from that,

and living alone won't either,

for solitude will also break you with its yearning.

You have to love.

You have to feel.

It is the reason you are here on earth.

You are here to risk your heart.

You are here to be swallowed up.

And when it happens that you are

broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt,

or death brushes near, let yourself

sit by an apple tree and

listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps,

wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself "you tasted as many as you could.”

After Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

October 2019

I am traveler,

Trying to find my destination in every stop i make,

Or stumble upon willingly or unwillingly.

But the soil on any stop doesn't welcome me like i hope it would,

So i cover my feets with hard boots thinking unlike the soil maybe the store would welcome me

And there too, i have to face disappointment.

Now here i am again, going back to the road and again thinking that this time i will not stop anywhere but the end of the road...if it exists

September 2019

What if i tell u i tried,would u believe me then...

i tried but it didn't make any difference

I tried but i haven't move an inch from where i was yesterday

And after every effort, i try to make something out of it .so that the next time, i can go a little further in what i think is the right direction

but all of this dosen't make any sense anymore..

There is something i am missing

Maybe there is something left to figure out in the process

Maybe some right things to say

Maybe some right thing to do

Or maybe some right things to believe

Whatever this last part of the puzzle is

It is not inside the box

And maybe it's time to search somewhere else

In something far greater then that puzzle box...

Greater Noida · May 2018

Why don't we rewrite the star , May be the world could be ours....tonight. After “Rewrite the Stars”, from The Greatest Showman

February 2018

Life always finds the way.....

Muzaffarnagar · January 2018

Roses are red , leaves are green, always be ready cuz somethings are just unforeseen

December 2017

Memories that haunts u for life. .

September 2017

I swear there was a beautiful sunset but man this stupid phone came in-between..

August 2017

The morning glory of monument is just awesome

December 2016

A night brings many nightmare .....its upto you if you want to believe them...

Muzaffarnagar · December 2016

Take this light and enlighten your life......take this warmth and feel comfy.....take this darkness and feel good cuz darkness in your life is less this this.....

November 2016

On the occasion of diwali ....here is a diwali special....

October 2016

Its better to light the candle than curse the darkness....

October 2016

Power of nature slowly passing everything in to nothingness.... ..

NIET, Greater Noida · October 2016

Fly away

August 2016

On a random road, Took a random click, Find out that randomness can be beautiful.....

August 2016

If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love human...

August 2016

Have some aam...

July 2016

Let's start with the dark side of our life.....

July 2016

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