When a day withers away just like that...
Tuck yourself into bed and embrace yourself for not withering away just like that...

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Growing up, no one ever told me how hard it is to be in love with yourself.

Only if they had chosen not to belittle. I would have chosen to live every day and savor every little moment to the fullest.

Oh Lord, growing up, how I wish anyone had told me how hard it is to be in love with yourself.

Whom am I to blame when it was I who fed only on their words within me and hung onto them relentlessly?

Still, how I wish only if they had chosen silence and let me be "myself." Today it wouldn't have been this hard for me to be in love with me.

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And so, just like that, we ended it all.

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मैं नदी तू किनारा
फिर भी क्यों है हमारा मिलना अधुरा?
मैं चाँद तू तारा
फिर भी क्यों है क्यों मुझसे इतना तू दूर?
मैं सियाही तू कलम
फिर भी क्यों नहीं है हमारी कहानी आलम?

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As this winter withers away,
I long to be happy
Even if the summer knocks me down,
I long to be happy
Every season that I come across hereafter,
I long to be happy
Even if it means choosing myself over others,
I long to be happy

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ये कोरा कागज़ तेरे नाम
लिख दे तेरे प्यार का नाम
अगर ना भी रहा उस मैं मेरा नाम
फिर भी लिख दु एक कविता तेरे नाम..

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Take me to the another world
Wherein I could start everything fresh
Be it going to school
Getting a job
or falling in love
Take me to the another world
Wherein people choose to be humane rather than just being human
Take me to the another world
Where broken hearts are transmuted to blessings
Take me to another world
Even if it is in my dream, let me weave this every night to get rid of my dystopian mind

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My mind is a mess.

I don't know how long it could hold on to me
Certain days it gets harder.
Still, I hung on to it as if everything was okay.
But deep down I know that my mind is a mess.
Only if I could reset my mind
I promise to take care of it as a mother,
nurture it like a papa
& to take baby steps, so it never turns out to a junkyard again!

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I wish to be a child again
Who could run through the alley
& cry over the broken toys

I'm breaking down
as the days pass
Over dreams,
Over humans
& thus tears run short— % &

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As the night grew darker
Her pace raised
Strangers following
Stopped, as she whined

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