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Midnight excerpts

The hollowness of universe – the black hole in her soul.

‘In fact, I am aware of the fake entities in my life.
I know that I can clear them if I wanted to in a moment …
But all this hollowness needs my sincerity.
Rumi’

Impromptu

There are decisions that can change lives. And there are lives that can change decisions…

Shades of love

Like the earthen green,with brown in hints. like the crimson gold, in the mixture of dusk, with blue and yellow and orange with sheen, and fluffy white on days of rain. like the wet silver and the hollow black, with wild waters deep. like the flickering yellow of candle light, with romance in air and blank noise of words.

like the white of satin sheets, the brown of skins, her hair and his eyes, the purple of her sari, flowers in the garden and his favorite books cover. like the pink in her sweater, the blush and his hug.

What shade is your love? :-)

Life, Life, Life

There is a bit of this and that today, the future seems a past’s arc today, the skewed line, the straight curve…

There are somethings that just wake you up! An incident, an experience, a phone call, and however bad or worse the news might be, you just know what you have to do then.

Your decision is there. I can’t say one doesn’t think about it, but maybe not, maybe there is no thinking about it coz you ‘know’. You might have spent years ignoring that problem, that situation, shirking away from the possibility of it, but when it happens, seconds are more than what you take to say ‘that is enough’.

That is one thing I love about life, the worse it gets, the more we get to learn! ;)

To the friend, I am dedicating this to… I just want you to say ‘Come on Life, Bring IT ON!!!

In one line…

You were HOME to me…

Why the first one is the hardest one?

Before you ask me, let me tell you that this post would answer all questions of yours regarding my whereabouts and the reason for no-show, whatsoever. Now, that I have managed to get you all settled, here I go.

Life is a journey and well, we all love being travelers. The whole idea of finding your destiny not only appeals to us but also excites us. Enough of philosophy, eh?! So, I was almost between three cities-or to be more accurate between two cities and one town- Delhi, Chandigarh, Simla…

The good news is that I am a post graduate finally, for those who consider degrees as education and the bad news was I had no job. Even though I call myself ‘gypsy’ and as much believe in the free-spiritedness, trust me I do need to earn as well.

Anyhow, coming back to what I essentially meant to write about. The first job is the hardest one; and when I say that minus all the part time jobs you’ve done, no matter how boring they were, the first full time job is the HARDEST. Here are a few reasons why…

  • You’ve to get up almost the same time everyday. EVERY SINGLE DAY!
  • You can’t bunk. No bunking. It is not your college or university where you can access how much of attendance you have and then go to sleep thinking ‘ah, all right I’d cover up next week.’
  • Also, even if you’re to make an excuse, the pleasure of sharing it is all gone. Like in college you can’t text your group at the eleventh hour saying, let’s bunk today or say see you in the second lecture-am sleepy.snooze!
  • The fact is there are no second lectures-it is a full day!
  • You are in a strange world with stranger people around. Lucky you if you’re around home, but for most of us it’s the other way around. We’ve to find another home which comes closest to being at home. And that takes a lot of time.
  • You’re apprehensive about the job, work, and culture of the firm you’re working with.
  • You don’t know how to react to jokes of your colleagues and maybe which is why silence is the best policy was ever said.
  • You wait for the weekend like anything and on the weekend you don’t know what to do.

Here are some of mine, add on yours :)

Stuck in a moment

Me and you are stuck in a moment.

It’s like a movie, where there is a co-centric movement to a specific scene. You might go to and fro, I might move around in circles, but we have to come back to the moment-again and again.

There is lot more to this moment, which our eyes can see or our minds can make out of it; a lot more that our hearts know and feel. We might not even feel the same about this, ironically, but it is inseparable now. We rather depend on it-this moment-more or so. It is one thing that connects me and you. One thing, the only, that is and shall always be common between us. Like a pact, its mutual and its silence is more than comforting. You watch it-replay this moment, muted, while I give in to the blaring sounds, deafening every other thought.

It’s like a pause, if not a full stop. It gives us our space, like a breather, it lets us accommodate better; it leads to a decision- a better one at that. We do and we shall remember each other, for this moment.

We would always remain, forever, in our lives stuck in a moment.


that moment…

it’s a moment but it is one. The moment when the whole world closes in, the floor sinks into gravity like never before, your world just crashes, collapses, torn apart, flooded and sunk.

The heart’s broken, soul withered, mind disillusioned. Happiness is pretence like the smile, to mask people away, to wall you in. Soon, the moss takes over the wall, thick in nature; it grows until the walls are no longer visible. But you always know, you always feel, you always remember that this wasn’t what you wanted.

Another moment, it’s the bloodshot eyes and you cry-everything you had even longed for, ever known, your emotions now fragile, your love now forgotten, your dreams now crushed, you cry. So much comes out at that moment that you feel your stomach being empty churned by the dread of loneliness, nausea drives you weak along with memories, and the vacuum is created.

it’s that one, but it is that moment.

Kauffee Life

The colors were not an imagination anymore, they were all around-brown, purple, red. The heels clicked their way, and in spite of all the chatter there was a silence she found. The silence she was starving for, a kind of calm to define which she couldn’t put in words.

Friends-she mused over the word as she watched familiar yet different expressions on his face. The laugh, the aura, the style, the chivalry-all was intact yet things had changed, the world had changed, she had changed or was trying to. For good or bad, was the question she thought she heard.

Couldn’t we talk, she thought of asking him-talk about all that I’ve been through, about times I really need you, about the bitter facts of today, about you and me, when we don’t remain us anymore.

And there were things she missed-small-stupid-silly-funny-but at the same time there was nothing better than the fact that they could still share a laugh, or coffee at times…

‘And it’s satisfying, well beyond it, the realization of the fact that yes; there -was-is- a man who loved you. It is a mean thing to do, to compare the part of love you’ve got with other things in the world or love itself-to weigh it-it won’t be a good choice, I feel’…she wrote down in her diary…

The shade of the evening got darker, the silence stronger and the taste of the coffee was wearing off. She combed her hair into a bun and wished she had let them grow.

Rushes

Finally, it fails me,

The lost echo of the last sound


A reverberation at the distance

A strung in the guitar, lost and found

Then it could happen, life waiting for me. And I could act silly and take a chance again. But my brevity lies in waiting, even if it gets longer and the silence is at times too much of a distraction.

I want a word, a sound, a sigh, a whisper…

P.S-Whenever Wildflower writes, I just know that I wanted to put words to the same things. But where I fail miserably, she does it with excellence.