हाँ, क्योंकि उम्मीदों की किरणें
मौकों से ज़्यादा हसीन होती है।

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सर्दियों में कंबल की तरह है।

अपने अंदर हमारी सारी परेशानियां समेट कर
सुबह की रोशनी की ओर ले जाती है।

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'I will be a foe too.'

'I need friends, not foes!'

'No, you need both, we all need both because we don't value the former without the latter.'

'Well, then I will be a foe too.'

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I detested you even more.

How could your love for me
be greater than mine for you?

How could you still care for me
while I failed to see your health sinking?

How could you not hate me
for being a numbskull
that I believed you to be?

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the smell of wet soil.
There is nothing more pure and divine.
Nothing more uplifting.

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that I love you and care for you the most,
basically everything that I can't say
when I am awake

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I simply sat, switched between apps and tabs.
Worked a little, just for the sake of it.
Now I feel clueless,
neither excited nor anxious for the next day,
only searching for the lizard in my room.
In fact, that's pretty much
my everyday lockdown routine.

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Life is a circle
What you do to others comes back to you

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They never seemed so distant
until I came closer to look at them.
Things from a distance never seem so real
as observed from a proximity far end.

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A rainy day's story from
my not-so-young childhood

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