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No one but My Shadow
I dance with my own shadow, 'Cause there's no one to hold my trembling hands, or share soft gaze. I dance with my own shadow, 'Cause there's no one to match my pace, or move in the same sequence. I danced with my own
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Hindi
खराब वक़्त
कफ़न ओढ़े हुए हैं दुनिया काफ़ी दिनों से कुछ मासूम बच्चों की खिलखिलाहट-ए-आवाज़ों के साथ। चाँद का भी वो आख़िरी नहाना, मुर्दा सूरज का वो दफ़्नाना, ता
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Thoughts: The Silence That Speaks
The lost maiden, Wanders deep within, With thoughts of him, and what had drawn her in, She willed those thoughts to leave, Recalling the torture she reprieved, The sheer panic and congestion, As he stood towering, with bated aggression, Stocky, wide and unattractive, Unloving the maiden with fierce refraction, He
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Silenced
I have been stripped of my gift, Of flawless words that I could sift, Left with nothing but flesh on bones, And a mind that brims with unwanted ghouls, And whilst parts of me may wish for release, The release from the grip he has on my soul, A grip
English
Only You
You move, and something in me realigns — like the tide remembering what it was made for. You are both stillness and fever, the breath I lose between the pulse and the echo. When you laugh, light burns through fog — a wound made radiant. Without you, the world keeps spinning, but
English
Kindness
I don't desire to lift the trophy for my aches I had nights of haunting and terrible storm those with retakes So I close my eyes to find my nightingale and offsprings of tree inhabitants And breathed in vision to search for the finest blooms, the season'
Hindi
ऐ हमसफ़र
ख़्वाबों को अकेले देखना और उन्हें सींचना रातों को करवटें बदलते हुए सोचना और सब पीछे छोड़ना ऐ हमसफ़र जो इस कश्मकश-सी ज़िंदगी में पाँव रखना चाहो तो आना आना हज़ारों बे
English
Ashes of a Forgotten Dawn
I walked through corridors that had no doors, where the walls whispered my old names and the floor remembered my weight. A clock melted in my palm; its hands pointed toward things I could not reach, and I let them slip like sand through broken fingers. The air tasted of
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Beyond Touch
Some connections don’t need hands to hold— they live in the quiet between heartbeats, in the way your name still feels like home when whispered in my mind. They don’t fade with time; they just settle deeper, like roots that keep growing even in dry earth. Sometimes I
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The Land they Drew
Off they went to a land Nurtured by their love and struggle. They survived there till age 84 Yet it always seems like they are 48 Someday one of them left the grounds of heaven To another heaven, not as wonderful. The other one departed soon, but my memory is
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The Hug She'll Remember
His arms found her, and for a moment, the noise in her head bowed its head in silence. She remembered the air changing when he pulled her close. It wasn’t love exactly, it was something quieter, like her heart whispering, “So this is what safe feels like.” A moment
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I'm the Darkness, I'm the Shroud
Walls do not stand, they grow. They climb the sky on vines of shadow and I sink. What light exists is a pinprick in a shroud, a lie told to the lost. I am not lost. I am the shroud. This darkness is not a place. It is a secretion,