~Masquerade(Rewind the tape of bygone hostility)

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The faint little ember of
a bygone summer
Of the wrath of crimson tears
Of the morsels of a shattered soul
Of mortified crystals of a shadowed destiny
Of tapestries of an unsung recollection
weaved in the sombre shades of
Shrieks, agony as if the wilting scent
in my mother's pallu intensified
Of a dreading life in a crib of injustice
Thriving through the shivering breaths
The summer of justice is a mere illusion

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Unanswered adieus... — % &ये कम्बख्त दिल तेरे यादोँ के बंदिश मैं कैद,
उन सेहलती वादों के कस्मकस मैं लुप्त,
अब बस रिहा कर दे इन ज़ख्मों से,
तेरे मोहबत के पैशा की रखमो से,
बस तेरे ही इंतज़ार मैं ये पतझर के स्याही ने
अपने रंग मैं बेरंग कर दिया इस अधूरी कहानी को,
अब आजाद हूँ मैं इस जिंदगी की बोझ से,
आ रही हूँ मैं इस कहानी को पूरा करने, तेरे समीप , तेरे साथ
— % &

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Traffic of thoughts hovering across my mind
Of a famished hope, wilting in a sigh
Of all the shooting stars
bereaving for their lost shimmer
Of all the tales tattered
over a midnight drizzle
Now cascade down as the melancholy of the rain
Swipes past the streets
Witnessing those recollections halted for eternity
Like the abandoned car in a red signal

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7 days passed
by but
screams still perseverant

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The week ended
but the
crowd wasn't weakened

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~Ferris Wheel of Emotions
( Featuring torn heart strings and hushed thunderstorms)

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An ode to a lost sailor
(The shoreline gleamed with two northern stars but my ship was strangled in an abysmal constellation of darkness)

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Dawn: A scarlet radiance in the cemetery of hopes

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She counted petals on naive flowers
Bruises teeming on her pale dimples and henna laden palms
Her captivated breath smiled beside the funeral pyre of her husband

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