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I kept your picture
as a bookmark
in my favorite book.

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I left a bookmark there,
on page number 102.
And few ages hence,
I resume, from where I left,
after dusting the book, page 102.
The pages bleached, print lighter.
The text unchanged, unlike the reader.

After ages, I picked up
from where I left.
But through these ages,
I picked me up
from what people left of me,
when they left.

Who knew a bookmark
was meant to be the one constant,
while everything around changed?

Bookmarks, wallflowers, coffee cups...
what it takes to stay when the world doesn't?

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| बुकमार्क |

तौहफ़े लौटाते वक़्त
अगर मैं कुछ नहीं लौटा पाया
तो वह था
मेरी सबसे पसंदीदा किताब में पड़ा
उसके हाथों से बना हुआ बुकमार्क
इस ख़्याल से
कि यदि फिर कभी मिलें
तो कहानी को इसी बुकमार्क से
आगे पढ़ सकेंगे दोनों

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You write for
likes, comments and shares,
I write for
BOOKMARKS.

We are not the same bro.

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I wish,
I had bookmark
to place in life,
to start again from
where I left once.

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Books are bookmark in life,
That have vast impact in thrive,
When it stucked then open the mark,
Read the way then on life embark.

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