On days i feel broken,
i sense myself being
a pile of flesh,
placed over a burning pyre;

i throw in my scrapped pieces
—which being my thoughts,
one at a time,
into the slow fuming clinkers;
weaving the flames
blaze into a large bonfire,
turning all of myself into ashes.

This ain't ever a way of self-destruction,
But an attempt for a resurrection.

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दुःखी मत होओ
मणिकर्णिका,
दुःख तुम्हें शोभा नहीं देता।

ऐसे भी श्मशान हैं
जहाँ एक भी शव नहीं आता
आता भी है,
तो गंगा में
नहलाया नहीं जाता— % &

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Its about the world of endless desire,
burning in life's fateful pyre..!!

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Alas! It is dead...
(Read in caption)

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To cleanse the soul
I burn my body everyday
In the pyre of my words.

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He sets my chest on fire
and slowly lights the pyre
of every desire.

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पापा की नन्ही परी,
मां की राज दुलारी,

मोम सी जल गई,
भैया की बहना प्यारी.

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Simmering
in silent agony,
I burnt my dreams
on the pyre of my ego.

The sparks
of what could have been
fizzled away in the chill
of an unrequited wind.

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I looked outside and
the sky was on fire.
Not an unclear prediction,
But a promise of what is and what was to come and find the inner demons as lier...
I looked inside and my soul was on pyre.
Not a vigil but a sacrifice of what is and what was to come and find the inner demons as lier..

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Adorned 'nd dressed
in red,
she looked
an ecstatic bride.
A black dot
was inked
behind her ear
to save her
from evil eye.


After all she
was going
to her bed,
her funeral pyre.

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