You were the stars in my sky,
Once you were my everything,
In the past, we were together,
Fortunate or unfortunate,
Only you can tell,
Maybe it is not a question for you to answer,
Maybe it was for me to decipher,
For once you were my everything,
And now you are next to being nothing,
Harmless it seems to break a bond,
A bond that ran so long,
A course so long, it was almost a decade,
Now there are only fading memories of it.

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His smile is a remedy,
My cure to every illness,
The solution to all my problems,
The happiness in my sadness,

His smile is a relief to my aching heart
Wherever I feel down, he lifts me up,

His smile is a cure to every little trouble I face,
with a smile I feel encouraged
With his smile I feel I can conquer anything

The whole world feels too small
when I begin to feel it's too big to fit-in a tiny creature like me,
His smile makes me "believe"
That nothing is impossible and I can do anything I wish

His smile is my remedy.

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The words were stuck in my throat
I was choking, unable to breath
When I struggled to inhale some fresh air
I found someone I thought would listen to me
And free me from the torturous words that kept impaling me
But little did I know, you were going to use them against me
Like sharp knives freshly stabbed on my body,
The wounds ached and kept bleeding
With no comfort to be provided
I was bottled in cage with no way to escape
You tried your best to break me
While I waited to break free
It remained a desire to live freely
A desire that was bound to stay a desire solely.

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Teri yaadon mein khoyi rehti hu,
Meri saason mein basta hai sirf tu,
Kaise tujhe samjhau mai,
Tujh sa na koi tha na koi hai,
Iss safar mein to bas hai tu, sirf tu

Kyu ye aankhe ho jaati hai nam
Jab na milta hai tu
Iss gam ko kaise bhula du,
Tujhe kaise mai paa lu,
Kaise tujhe karu mai bayan iss ishq ki daastan

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{ the lakes }

The lakes Sneha's version

I died in the lakes where poets went to die,
I came with the fever of poetry in my veins,
As if someone suddenly injected me with multiple notions and I needed to put them down on paper as soon as possible,
I suddenly knew what to write and how to write, going bonkers over the pieces of papers I had put my poetries on,
I learnt the agony of the poets who always needed to appreciate beauty through their words or pass a message through their beautifully crafted words,
I learnt what happened and why the poets went to die in the lakes just to fulfill their one last wish...

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She had those sharp striking features,
Her smile was devilish, even made the devil fear for his life,
She was sharp, smart, brainy, knew how to get things done either through commands, manipulation or by force,
She knew her way around, she knew how things worked,
She was too sharp for her own good,
She was a warrior, a beauty disguised as fragile but she wasn't fragile as she seemed, although she had her days too, she cried too, but she was strong mentally, she was in control of herself and her life. She was a dictator, a ruler, she was a stern warrior. She was love and yet she was strong, she was weak too, she was just human after all.

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We grew apart like the falling tides,
Each time further and further we were,
The distance grew,
It kept growing until we were too far apart,
Separated from each other,
Until we couldn't meet each other anymore.

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The silence grew louder and louder,
The gaps and spaces gree thicker and thicker,
The surroundings grew darker and darker,
Was this how it was supposed to end?

Was this how the story of us comes to an end?
Is this where we stand today? So far apart from each other we are,
The liveliness is gone,
The feelings have vanished and faded into thin air...

© Sneha Das

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मेरा दिल खुली किताब सा
मेरा मन्न खुली किताब सा

कहानियां मेरी ज़िंदगी की हैं भारी हुईं
तुम खोलो तो सब पढ़ पाओगे, सब कुछ
चाहे हो अच्छा, या बुरा सब मिल जाएगा

खोलो तो सही, इन पन्नों को
जो चाहो सब मिल जाएगा ।

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To the night sky I belong,
To the stars and the moon,
Like the owl that hoots in the night,
I am a night owl,
I am a lover of the night,

The creatures that lurk in the night,
My brain is the most active at that time too,
To the night sky I belong,
It is where I truly belong,

I sing songs for the love I have for the night in my heart,
A melody only the night, the stars and the moon know,
I sing from my heart,
A ode for only the night to know.

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