September 2020 - Smoke Words Every Day

[353] We’re Not Alone

September 30, 2020September 30, 2020by Rahul Gaur12 Comments

What secret am i uncovering by fixating on my thoughts as if the clouds would burst or the sea would part only to reveal a spectacle that will make sense of the profound anxiety i drown in Giving characters to my emotions I see sadness as a wilted sunflower obeying only to rebel against its [...]

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[352] A Beautiful Smile

September 28, 2020by Rahul Gaur14 Comments

Self-diagnosed with no self-confidenceI indulge in the breaking of my mind Compliments fall on my Van Gogh ear I reach my home to finally find my city on fire 'Do you have any last words?' the fire asksAnd the words on the threshold swallow up my tongue I had prepared a speech for all my [...]

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[351] Lost Beautiful Eyes

September 25, 2020September 25, 2020by Rahul Gaur2 Comments

I seek again ⁣my lost beautiful eyes⁣which used to capture ⁣the fleeting time ⁣in the vessel of a memory⁣For all that I need ⁣is an unwavering focus ⁣where I flee around in the moment ⁣like a flying bird⁣ that is stillon an airless day⁣⁣I will find my way there ⁣in the flow of it all⁣where [...]

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[350] Innocence Lost to Time

September 23, 2020September 23, 2020by Rahul Gaur10 Comments

Everyone is asleepIt means I can talk to the wind tonightThey’re finding and losing their way and I’m closer to finding my answers at nightDriven to insanitywhere the universe ends for usand the Big Bang begins againThat’s where I find myself stuckAm I the beginning of the endor is it all circular insteadClarity sidesteps for [...]

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[349] The Magic of Thinking

September 21, 2020September 21, 2020by Rahul Gaur17 Comments

I don’t think people know how to thinkThey look at others to confirm realitywho look at others and it goes on and onWe have inherited tribalismwhich rests in our mindwaiting for moments of disquietand the admittance of short term thinkingwhere we mistake impulse as intuitionand the world turns into a war zoneThe end is nighI [...]

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[348] We’re All Alone

September 18, 2020September 18, 2020by Rahul Gaur32 Comments

Contradictions crash around hereHearing, an anomaly Time finds a way of flyingwhen silence is forgottenWhen it finds itself on a planet of great divideswhere attention is providedto the clouds of the worldwhich rains information downIt sucks up the earthIt sucks up the human soullike pain in a heartbreaklike colour from a paintingIt renders it a doom [...]

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[347] The Space Between Us

September 17, 2020by Rahul Gaur13 Comments

Turning away from youis the hardest movement to followMy body tries to betray my mindwhile my eyes try to see throughthe glasses you’ve gifted meAs they do their magic and blind my visionfrom the real you

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[346] The Fourth State of Living

September 14, 2020by Rahul Gaur6 Comments

All my biases and patterns point me to a living without ordeal A seamless painless life full of living 10 years in the blink of an eye but when I wake from my sleeping stateI realise regret creeping in I observe guilt of a life gone to wastejust because I stopped seeing when my eyes [...]

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[345] Find Me

September 11, 2020by Rahul Gaur8 Comments

I find no meaning in finding meaning ⁣⁣⁣ As they say that the lost cannot be found⁣⁣⁣ I shape the lineage of all my emotions ⁣⁣⁣ who usually find me lost in the clouds⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ A teardrop to break through walls⁣⁣⁣ A sign to hold on to you⁣⁣⁣ A lie to catch your faux honesty⁣⁣⁣ [...]

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[344] It Rained Inside

September 9, 2020September 9, 2020by Rahul Gaur10 Comments

I am her little secretshe hides me in her mindand meets me in her dreamswhere we skip once upon a timeI fall to the groundshe invites me inside her homeI stumble in as the cloud rumblesonly for it to rain inside her homeThe air is drowning we can seebut we hold each other’s handsIsn’t that [...]