I wish
you
would be
shallow
instead.
At least
I could
see my
reflection
clearly.

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I accept that my ego came between us,
It made all my actions shallow,
But trust me,
I won't repeat that,
I want to say sorry,
and make it all up to you,
I want us to be together again,
And I will not do that again.

-

Deep down we all
know the truth.

But we always
love sugar coated words.

-

Maybe

Your heart was
too shallow
to ever let me swim,

just enough
to let me sink.

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The shallow seeks the depth,
when it realises the disappointment in depth.
Tired of its own superficiality,
it now desires prosperity.

Narratives of no Greek God,
tales of no fairy anymore.
Catastrophe of realism without the doom.
Finiteness of infinite bliss hailing the sorrow;
the shallow had ever felt in times.

It was traumatised in those loops of epochs.
The chronicles never did ended,
they went all along.
The shallow heard the finite porkies; no more.

-

In a war of mighty egos,
words have been the second most potent weapon of all time.

Ignorance however, remains the first.

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I'm a Netizen
a different kind of citizen
I live in cyberspace
I inhabit virtuality.
I'm not allowed more than 140 letters,
and not getting 'likes' gives me jitters.
I don't laugh anymore, I LOL!
I don't socialise or have friends
who I can meet physically,
my existence is measured in retweets & followers, technically.
I use thesaurus to sound Victorian,
just to hide myself from being called a plebeian.
My heartbeat is the internet,
my mantra is connectivity,
my friend is my phone,
it's battery is my longevity.
My favourite pass time
is to stare at the mobile screen,
waiting for a like, a follow up or a ping.
Its been ages since I've heard a live voice sing.
For days I don't come out to see the sky or bird.
What for, I think now, for the bird is just an icon, and the inverted comma is the new 'talisman'.
I'm a netizen, a different kind of citizen,
living in virtual reality,
forever connected,
yet when dissected,
absolutely alone as an entity.
-Rohan Srivastava

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✳️Wish you were a pool of knowledge ✳️
✳️And I would swim in it. ✳️
✳️From shallow to deep ✳️

-

Nobody cares about your
broken heart and the pain
because of it but people
only care about that you
are broken at some point.

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Have you seen the beautiful shallow blue beaches,
like the ones near Coral reefs?

People love swimming around the exotic coral life,
as they don't mind being cut every once in a while,
by the sharp edges
of those very corals.

They prefer the safety of its shallowness,
rather than the bruises it brings with it,
bleeding them a little,
every single time.

Irony is,
we apply the same logic
to the people in our Lives as well.

Next time,
choose depth.
Even if you drown,
You'll die just once.

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