Not always good

It is a foggy winter morning like any other, but there is an unusual heaviness in the air. There is a smell I don’t like, though it doesn’t qualify to be called a stench. The radio is on to keep me updated on the time it takes for the drive. I sense a traffic jam … Continue reading Not always good

Suspicious

There was something ominous about that number. She was too young, then, and her mother refused to give any details later. They used to meet a man in jail, with 100 printed on his shirt. He looked suspiciously like the man in her late father’s portrait. But her Dad was a nobleman.   Twittering Tales

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 52

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Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 52

challenge 52

Now is subjective.

Now is just as much long as much anxiety/ happiness you allow for it.

Waiting for someone/something anxiously makes it long as eternity.
Hours spent with friends, near and dear ones fly like a second.
As you say ‘Now’, it becomes past. The moment is passed. Now is pushed back by new now.

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Latent fire

Purification by fire is my personal alchemy- latent heat inside me   Rising after a fall in the eyes that matter- a few who look up to me   Fighting my self- but not the world a few unwashed stains block me   Not conceding defeat I’m neither helpless nor weak a few destinations-still beckon … Continue reading Latent fire

Heart struggles

ticking heartbeats define worthwhile moments of life hacking joy but fail to outlive allocated spans   all bodies which are birthed face a life sentence work and struggle to prolong the term till death tears them apart from the soul   Weekly Writing Prompt #157

Outlaw

She is born with this disturbing ability – of separating the fake from real, effortlessly. It creates discomfort in people around her. They try to frame her for wrongdoings, and make her feel guilty. She is often accused of taking a different path- the only path she has ever known. Is living for her own … Continue reading Outlaw

Emotional Abuse

Anna’s mother is a good cook. Or so she thinks she is… It has moved to the extent of being an obsessive compulsive disorder. She cooks and cleans to perfection, even if there was domestic help to do it, feed and pamper a male member of the family (husband, son, grandson, son-in-law, whosoever lived under … Continue reading Emotional Abuse

Heart break

fresh heart break oozing wounds but for how long? healing wounds remnants of scars but who cares? spasms of pain refreshed wounds Who mentioned your name? suppressed groans – mine untainted reputation – yours Silence adorns lips –forever? I gather moments entrenched in memories Now … Translation of a Hindi poem by Amit Agrawal (hecblogger) … Continue reading Heart break