August 2018 - Smoke Words Every Day

[185] Cloudy Nights/ Starry Nights

August 31, 2018by Rahul Gaur13 Comments

Cold breeze from the beach touches upon the memory from our final conversation I find sand in my pants from that cloudy night I hold it again but it slips away again This time I clean away the dust collected My mind survives its own ruin sometimes I put my ear to the shell from that [...]

poetry

[184] When I See You

August 31, 2018by Rahul Gaur15 Comments

lo-fi summer chill in your summer house feet entangled feelings entangled but it doesn’t matter in your summer house everything is rosy down here sun shines in your summer house but it doesn’t hurt like it used to maybe its because we’re alone together now there is no room for darkness around here even the [...]

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[183] Falling Into Space

August 25, 2018by Rahul Gaur6 Comments

The sky is cracking The air feels so distant We're flying into space There's nothing around us that makes us feel normal we're all we are for each other I can see the universe in your eyes Time is stretching beside us and it cries I'd like for you to be on my side forevermore [...]

poetry

[182] Privilege

August 23, 2018August 26, 2018by Rahul Gaur36 Comments

My small comforting bubble bursts with the onset of responsibility I was walking against the traffic before Now i am the traffic i used to curse I was invisible with no chance of discovery Now i am invisible with no wish to be discovered Still In the comfort of the car The falling rain blurs [...]

Write-ups, writing

[181] Mass Hysteria of Truth

August 20, 2018by Rahul Gaur14 Comments

The loneliest thing in the world is to search for the truth in everything and anything. Ask any conscious artist the question, "what is good art?", and most of them will answer "it's the pursuit of truth". No one will ever say "it's when you get to the truth" because no one ever gets to [...]

poetry

[180] Present Plight

August 19, 2018August 19, 2018by Rahul Gaur17 Comments

Sometimes when the rain comes I ask myself Was i wrong to love you? Is this waning self-confidence worth your little display of affection Is knowing that you are mine only sometimes worth hurting myself all the time? I'm almost close to the answer it lingers in a thought between the past and the future [...]

poetry

[179] Flashes Before I Died

August 15, 2018August 15, 2018by Rahul Gaur25 Comments

This is my thinly veiled autobiography Sirens whirling around me Is this the end people talk about? where your life flashes before you where the moments you hold sacred reminds you of your ignorance towards them This is my thinly veiled autobiography No one is breathing around me It's the kind of death we wish [...]

poetry

[178] Even The Clouds Mourn

August 9, 2018October 2, 2018by Rahul Gaur13 Comments

Droopy eyes struggle to take in the endless valley of clouds From high above its easy to forget that you live on the ground below I can almost feel the rain on my cheeks Is this what breathing in heaven feels like where you don’t ask for attention neither i feel the need to ask [...]

poetry

[177] Journey Without A Goal

August 5, 2018by Rahul Gaur17 Comments

The endless days of youth Idealism mixed with rebellion If we could have a name for ourselves We’ll call ourselves a maze Trying to understand the intricacies of the world from our little room Thinking of ourselves as poor but of the urban kind Fighting for causes no one told us to fight for Yet [...]

Write-ups

[176] How To Be Successful?

August 4, 2018August 4, 2018by Rahul Gaur9 Comments

We're all excited in the story of the successful. The 1% that have achieved what they imagined. We deny ourselves thinking that we won't be a part of that 1%, so we don't listen to the other not so successful 99%. So now we don't know what not to do. Who tells the story of [...]