I came home late and found Mike sitting on the couch very disturbed
Me : what happened Mike, you seem upset, everything fine at work..?
Mike : everything is fine at work, I just have to attend a wedding reception tonight, I just got a call.
Me : what's wrong in that? you tired?
Mike : no, Mary is getting married, remember.... my ex.?
Me : It's fine baby, since she is fine why do you worry..? Go, wish her and come back.
Mike : *sighs* ok, I'll go, can you come with me, please..?
*my phone rings*
Me : hello, yes, oh, how are you.?
what.?
Congratulations..... when..?
Today! I'll try
You won't believe this, Mark got married today and he just invited me for his reception, like now...!
Mike: what..? You're ex, Mark..? What a fucking coincidence..?
Me : I guess we both have to go and congratulate the couple, I wish I could have with you...
Mike : It's fine, get dressed.
We got dressed up and we both headed out, he took a cab and I took the car, I walk in to the reception hall and turn around to find Mike
Both of us were upset as shit. It was over, we could have not gone, but we had to, we had to tell them we moved on...
Mike : what the fuck, wait... really.
Yes our ex were getting married to each other, which means their ex got married to each other, which was fucking crazy. We dint invite them for our wedding, so they have no idea...
We walked up, posed for a pic, him next to her and me next to Mark. It was the worst situation I was in...
We walk out hand in hand...
Mary & Mark : that was my ex, deal done of inviting them to our wedding...
Now, more than us they were fucked up exactly on their wedding day...
Why is being strong so romaniticised.
Why is crying and talking and being yourself considered weak?
Why is letting go difficult
Why aren't we given time if it's difficult?
Why is being you so suffocating
Why can't you be you?
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Why is romance so fragile
Why is it that you need someone?
Why can't you cling to pain
Why is ease so easy?
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Why can't you whine
Why can't you complain?
And Why is that you can write only when you are in pain?
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Why is your healing
Someone else's pain?
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Why is your time not at their time stamp?
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Why can't people know we're all at a different pace
In our journey towards ease.
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Why is it difficult to see someone cry
And not just be.
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Why do you want everyone to smile even beyond that pain.
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Why can't you let the pessimism
Go away on its own
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Why do you guilt someone over healing
Why do whine over someone else's pain.
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Why can't you trust over time
To do the healing.
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Why can't you love the pain and the sorrow
And embrace the person
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You don't want change you want remedy
You don't want ease you want comfort
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You don't want serenity you want pleasure
You guilt others over your guilt
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You ease others over your ache
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It will all be right
Just no more wrong infront of you.
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Let's put up a brave face is it?
To find that they were better off
Behind those locked doors.
Being lovers or strangers, either way being them
And not exposed and vulnerable
Behind closed doors, they were lovers.
I always wonder, if I could do a lot of things, life would have been a bit more simpler.
if I could read other people's mind it would have been simpler to avoid complications, to not hurt people. I would not have broken the trust of my beloved and regret those lies.
if I could go back in time, I would have undone a lot of things that hurt her and made her eyes go wet. I would have not fallen in love with all those wrong guys and now be in a state of hating love.
if I could get a second chance, I would apologize to all those whom I hurt.
if I could.... if I just could... I would do a hundred things that made life simpler, that made life easier.
The mornings have been lazy lately,
with disturbed patterns of sleep,
you wonder when you go to sleep and when you wake up.
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But the mornings these days are also tremendously beautiful,
the sunlight hitting you just the right amount through the windows
the tree outside that’s blooming,
leaving just the right amount of flowers on the ground.
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The birds chirruping outside breaking the silence,
the squirrels cry out of joy,
all of them coming out at the right time.
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The evening strolls in the terrace,
with my coffee in hand,
the book I’m reading,
yet again the birds and the wind that brings in peace.
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And then today came the first of summer rains,
the birds all flying with a sudden alarm,
they welcome the rain even before we know of it,
the eagles flying above the clouds, welcoming the warmth.
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The petrichor hitting me first even before the drops of rain,
I let them fall on my face,
the heat comes down
there is this sudden chillness in the atmosphere,
and then it rains heavily.......
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I sit down enjoying the rainfall,
finishing my book,
wanting to write about it all,
but it’s worth the wait.
I wanted to take it all in.
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with rain came the wind,
the lighting and thunder,
the sun who went into hiding
comes back with company,
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the colors of
violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red
fills the sky,
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I continue sipping my coffee,
reading my book,
looking up constantly at the sky, the birds and the rainbow.
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I go back to sleep that night,
with a huge smile, a content heart and a finished book.
Thinking of a beautiful day that unfolded itself
seeing all those that no one saw,
that no one noticed,
that beauty,
and that melancholy of the day having finished so fast
the melancholy with serenity
that no one saw
no one would ever see
the melancholy with serenity...
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The solicited aspects of life turns on
Accepted mores of life goes on
But still there persists one constant thing
That isn't ready to go with change...
Change itself.
There are aspects she claims about herself
There are aspects she says she's not
But like everybody says
At the end of the day all she wants are eyes pleased
And people happy.
I haven't known her well
Even after knowing her for the past 21 or so years
She seems to be a confident, clear and sorted person
And the next fraction I see this trash of a person
She messes up everything just by over thinking
Everytime I tell her to shut up at unnecessary conversations.
Still she spills the words and poof! Goes everything
There are people who know the playful side of hers
And yet there are others who know her as rude and disrespectful
She throws up tantrums and sits up angry
And then there are people who now her as the quite and composed one....
I know her of not just flesh and bone
But rather deep inside
Of all these sides and more
Of all the broken relationships
Of all the complaints from childhood
Of all the fears from life....
I know her like no one else
But sometimes even I have a set back understanding what exactly she wants
Because she holds back from everything she needs
Having so much going on in her head
But still putting them all behind
And regretting of that one moment she takes for herself
Spending that one penny on her
Going that one extra mile.
I feel sorry for her if nothing else
Because of the heart that she holds
And the world she tries to put together
In the end she lands up letting go of herself for others
I gaze at the evening sky
filled with all kinds of birds chirruping...
the parrots flying in flocks, the crows sharp enough to notice everything, the eagles high enough that they don’t care of what’s going down...
the sun sets in one corner, the moon now visible in between trees, in between clouds....
All the birds fly back home, the pigeons finding shelter in tall buildings, the crows in the big tree.
suddenly the night grows dark
not because of the night, or the clouds
rather something else is filling up the sky
I look up and find hundreds of bats all flying
filling the night sky with just enough space to reveal the moon
welcoming the full moon....
When new things happen in life, what do you do? Depending on the happening you either become happy or sad, right?
Well, that's what I'm going through right now. I am happy, well happy would be a small word, I'm extremely overwhelmed. Happier than ever, and that's what worries me... But I guess with him by my side I will be fine.
Because today had been a perfect day. Brunch with friends, lot of laughter and hard core fun.
He sent me something that's his. Something that was a piece of his life... Maybe I really had no idea how much I made him feel infinite...
This feeling of happiness seems wonderful, well leaves me speechless whenever I think about the great things happening.
Maybe I should just sit back and relax like how he always says
I do not know, even though its confusing, there is clarity in this fairy tale that he has built me. Because more than love, I trust him
I look through the window, to find many other buildings.
While I'm lighting my candle, sipping my chai
I see a hundred other things that's going on
A man maybe in his 30s sits infront of a laptop and works all day, he sometimes cribs and get up, but the call holds him back and he gets back to work
I see this young couple from another window, who have fairy lights and white curtains.
Every night they are in each other's arms having a movie marathon
I look away and my eye lands on the woman who has 2 children running around her all the time, while the toddler paints the house with his crayon the other child plugs in the headphone and sits for class. I see childhood smashed there in front of screens and I let out a sigh.
I wonder if someone looks through my window and sees me sometimes dancing to the tunes, and other times cooking to the same tunes.
While sometimes I try to get some work done, other days I wake up in the afternoon.
I wonder sometimes if someone looks through my window and says, that girl has always music to muse to.
I wonder if someone knows that I plug in to my earphones all the time because I can't be left alone with my thoughts.
I wonder if someone sees me through my window and wonders how days in my life are.
When someone asks me how my days go, I have no answers, because there is no more a normal day, a routine or a purpose. There is nothing I look forward to, or something I do.
A normal day in my life isn't normal anymore.
Image from: @a-small-startup
With mountains climbed
Stars gazed at.
It's been a beautiful week of all my life.
With friends made, and friendships bonded
I don't know how life could change.
People talked, laughed, had a merry go ride.
This has been where relationships redefined
New ones made
Judgements broken and new ones made.
Love to all the people and all the memories.
To the good and bad triping
I have that one person in life to whom I can be me and still be confident that he wont judge.
Well thats what I believe everytime I meet that person.
That one person changes with time.
Sometimes it's you
And yet other times its him or her or her
Everytime I end up talking hours together
Not leaving the smallest detail of what happened in the day
I fear that he would get bored
That he would not feel anymore.
Today I could sence that he was getting tired of me being excited of the same thing again and again
Maybe I should stop because
Maybe I get too excited about petty things
But I thought he would understand that it means the world to me.
I never thought I would say this for him because till yesterday I had something else to tell.
Yet one more time people have proven that they cant be what they promise to be
And all those promises starts to flow with the rain leaving me all back to square 1.
Thinking what went wrong this time