from links interlocked
to form chains
around me,
most of which
are made of people.
You might see them
as someone who adds
a hint of gold
to my being
but how I wish
you knew
the glitter
doesn't last too long.

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A choice between
~ a child stumbling to blaring alarm and waking up to amma's voice
~ a child unpacking lunchbox and fiddling with school's menu
~ a child returning to find amma and amma returning to find child
It's amazing how being jobless is yet so underrated
Forgetting being home can be a conscious choice
Being nothing giving her the space to be a scribbler, a parent, a pawrent and everything else she wanted to be
When all that her soul has ever yearned for is to hit the bed with no laments.

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I am where I am
Reveling in sunshine
Breezing through mundane
Battling demons
Waging wars
Figuring my journey
Yet finding the grass on my side green enough
And life fair enough
I am where I am
I am just where I'm meant to be...

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I'm wise enough to live on my own and
smart enough to act dependent on him.

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Life amid poetry is like
the distance between two dots
making me wonder
if I'm marking poems
to shape up my life
or living life
to mark my poems.

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Safekeeping

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How many times have you ever treaded on your own glasses not realising they are around?

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Soft like the feather, fierce like the fire
Calming like the breeze, raging like the volcano
Fleeting like the dew, forever like the ocean
Sometimes, sometimes that
A bunch of paradoxes
Take me as I am or watch me as I go!

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It hurts when
somebody judges us
And it hurts even more
knowing we failed to
draw boundaries.

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I stopped aspiring to become
my favorite teacher,
my next-door aunt,
my distant cousin
or even that random stranger
for you see
I got a li'l too busy
unbecoming
all that
I am not.

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