Happy Mother's Day,
To the women who didn't birth me
But has loved me as a Daughter of her own

Who doesn't know my flaws
But accepts them whole heartedly when she sees one

Who knows that I am suffering just by noticing slightest change in my behavior

Who gives me the best advice and keeps me feel included when I'm at my worst fear

Who becomes worried seeing me in pain
And tries to provide me the comfort when I find myself under disdain

She didn't bring me to this world
But she is willing to do anything to keep me beside her

We may be living oceans apart
But having her there for me soothes my heart

To Jennifer R

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Everyday I've been thriving to live happily
To wake up, to eat and to sleep

Life's not better without you Mother
It's like a mirror that was once broken
And is now mended just for me to keep

I wipe that mirror to clear the blurred vision
But it is the tears from my eyes that require a sweep

The nights are sleepless and the weakness consumes me
It is time's way of telling that
It is the day of the year when you had left leaving behind ME

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Unrequited love the most purest of all
It shows you the world from a different eye

You love someone with all your heart
Just to see them go leaving you behind

It is like a rare flower blooming once in a while
Then it withers leaving its fading fragnance behind

You reach the epitome of love and grief
Then you learn to let it go with a smile

Unrequited love the most purest of all
Then one day it takes away your reason to be alive

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Yearning...

For a place filled with warmth
To sit beside a window in a passing snow storm

To write a letter for the last time
To make one more wish before that star turn into memory

To watch the last leaf fall down from the Maple Tree
To become one with the nature and be at last free

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ज़ि‌ंन्दगी सपनों सी नहीं होती
यह कभी लोगो‌ं तो कभी वक्त ने सिखाया

मा‌ॅं, माना की तूने आंसू आंखों से गिरने नहीं दिए थे कभी
लेकिन अकेले चलने का ड़र भी तो तूने नहीं मिटाया

हूं आज मैं अकेले एक सफर में
बता अब कैसे इन रास्तों से ना डरूं

क्योंकि भीढ़ में कोई चहरा अपना है या पराया
यह परख़ना तो मुझे शायद कभी नहीं आया

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A long lost desire knocked at my door again

I looked into its eyes
With smile on my face and a heart full of pain

I did, I do, I will always do
These words had almost spilled out of mouth

Just then I remembered
How long it took me to mend a broken picture frame

Every Day I take a step forward
Then every Night takes me back

Into the forgotten memory lane...

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You are not like me
I am not like you

You are the Sunshine Yellow
I am like the Morning blue

I have yearned for years...
To be dyed in your hue

Now, I am afraid I am becoming something...
Something that won't ever belong to you

Is it my fear or I am just swaying away from the path I had chosen?

Will the Sunlight fade the real me
The way it fades the morning dew?

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Dear Mom,
The time isn't waiting for me
Neither did you do

I feel sometimes that you are fading away
And then in that one moment
My mind gets filled with the memories of you

I have tumbled upon the roads that I walked alone
But I know the power that didn't let me get hurt was you

I am still learning to muster up the courage
Courage, to be on my own

At the places where nobody holds my hand
To save me from falling
In this World without your support

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It's there...

Behind that perfect smile, the hint of emptiness is there

After every success, a feeling of missing something is there

Flying high in the sky the mind still wonders how would I look from the land

The Heart yet always remains filled with the despair

In the Daylight, We wish not to be seen

In the Night, forlornness is there...

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You don't say it out loud but it hurts doesn't it?

Watching people walk past you, when you are unable to move even a bit on your own

When the world is changing constantly and you are stuck
because you cannot accept the changes

When you have this desire to shout your heart out
but you know your words cannot be heard

That feeling of numbness in your heart
when the people around you are laughing
and you stand still thinking where did it all go wrong?

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