Skin me alive when I'm dead,
for I got sediments from each
Life I lived.

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MALADIES TO MELODIES

It enthralls me now and then,
How you praise me, more often.
I feel it's just for the dream I once blown,
Maybe it's all about the faith I have grown.

Reality is delusional, you confide,
It's the glitter you find, that chastise.
The glitter is the Twinkle you see in me,
Which died long back, but it's delusional, you see!

You clavier'd retort, and left a blooming scar,
Friendship created HOPE, that drives afar.
Decelerated and took the back seat,
Finally, savouring your melodious retreat !

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Celebrate your roots.

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Mujhe sang leke
jin bench'o mei baithe thhey
woh bench'e bhi
ajkal tippani karte hai
humare kahe-sune
kahaniyo ko leke.

Mujhe sang leke
jin bagicha'o mei
madhumakkhi ka peecha kia
woh makhhiya bhi
ajkal dhoondti hai
tumhari adhuri candyflower.

Mujhe sang leke
jin raasto pei bhaga-douri kia
woh toote tiles bhi
ajkal intezaar karti hai
tumhare haat sei gire huye
lemon tea ke do boond ki,

Dekhna-dikhana bas vehem hai tumhara,
kyoki asliyat ki zanzeer'o sei
wakif thhey hum.

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Childhood flew like that helium balloon
Which the 5-years old me cried for, in fairs.
Father often gifted me those, and mother
convinced me everytime-
To let go the thread, standing on the rooftop
To tie a letter to its end, hoping it will reach heavens,
Imagining my grandparents being impressed by
My clumsy childish cursives.

Another time, I slipped the thread,
and the balloon touched my room's ceiling.
That moment it mentored me that
Heaven is the place where you can be 'YOU'-
Limitlessly! Timelessly!

Since then I often searched for a Heaven on Earth
Got disappointed,
as Geography and Google failed to surf through.
Once I came home sniffed that dream.
I searched around the silent corners, until -
I found myself scattered in ephemeral pleasures.

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The spidery snowman creeps into my veins
With icy flakes of toxicity.

The coldness of your cotton lap,
The cloudy touch of your fingers,
They translucently evaporate me.

The curtains of affluency you wove,
Were muggy.
You were the sweltering snowman.

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I'm breathing you,
I'm breathing your incest.

The toxic fumes,
The lonely tunes
I'm breathing in, all.

You caused a sense shutdown,
You bought Helium Balloons to ground
I'm breathing in, all.

My oesophagus blossomed,
While Lungs corroded.
I'm breathing you, in.
Breathing your Persecutions.

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We're hungry.
Hungry of the fresh air
and the fresh faces.
Be assured,
a Fresh Day is on its way.
It will take TIME and LIVES, to come.

It can be Nature's conspiracy
to heal itself,
as we turned our backs towards it
When she needed us the most.

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Amidst an epidemic
we stand strong
our knees tremble
now and then. Yet,
We Stand Strong.
Time
tries to pave us down
to an inexorable apocalypse,
We Stand Strong.

We face the doom,
We challenge it.
It seems the doom is
Egoistic.
We look into its eyes, and
Say : "Human Race Will Win!".

Time will go on, but will leave
chances and bruises behind.
We take the chances and will
Celebrate with our bruises.

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Loyalty to me, is like Royalty.
I recieved very little.

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