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[143] Guide For Not Reading
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A guide to not reading books. Step 1: Read a book’s synopsis, blurbs and get interested to read it. Step 2: Go to goodreads and check how many pages it is. Step 3: Start reading reviews. NO. Start reading ‘negative’ reviews. Et voila! Anyone else facing the same problem?
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[142] The Aftermath
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All you are now is a tremor in my memory Like the coming of an earthquake but to me just an illusion of the mind All you’ve become now is just a scar on my skin Like an invisible tenant of my body but the one that makes its presence felt once in a while…
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[141] Echoes of Silence
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You left your memories To echo in this empty room Each corner of which hides the fragrance of your lilac breath The walls capture your heels when I held you by the waist It feels as if this is a riverbed of my insecurities This empty room It’s a result of avoidance of my pain…
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[140] Wasted Times
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Stillness without contentment is just anxiety brooding. You can have the laziest day turn into a day of rest or it can turn into a day of sulking over your lack of productivity. Being holed up in a room and catching up with yourself can be tiring in an ironical way. Introspection takes effort and…
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[139] The Last Word
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It was one of those conversations where the word “love” was mentioned 31 times where it felt for the first time that with all this distance between us space can feel suffocating too It was one of those conversations where the word “bye” was mentioned 55 times and yet we talked regardless letting every sound…
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[138] Detonation in 3…2..1
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I let my eyes adjust to the dark to let it uncover its secrets to let it overcome me somehow to show the potential of what we become if we give in to the vices and all the temptation that comes with it All your philosophy of life that you neatly lifted from minds alike and…
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[137] An Ode to Stupidity
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The weight of my intelligence weighs on my stupidity and I carry it like an exercise in style but waiting for you to tell me that sometimes intelligence is negligent and some rawness of our mind is elegant where nothing comes out of a filtered brain and all you care is to get that weight…
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[136] Exagerrated Truth
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To substitute for life I create art and in its wilful expression I find myself sometimes lurking in the corners of nowhere lost and fearful of what lays ahead but still holding on to what good lies behind Entangled in the mood of Tokyo I create haphazard memories of tomorrow Neon lights droop over my melancholy…
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[135] #NaPoWriMo [1/30] {Book of Shame}
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Buying words only not to read because the will to write them sometimes surpasses the stream of thought needed to hold a book and just be Even though I don’t read enough I still buy them to keep them in my cupboard like the secrets I horde that I’m guilty of having like the secret…
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[134] Loss For Words
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The sky waves in its colourful intensity I struggle to intensify the thoughts in my head to write them like they used to before to get my mind talking to my fingers The lies that used to come so easily now hide behind the truth of incapability Memorable performances for the crowd is a rarity as…
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[133] Afraid Of Acting On My Dreams
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Dreams of shooting stars because I’m fearful of acting on my own dreams A trip to the mountains A life out of time created out of a vacuum is what exists in my mind An escapist idea it is to run away from the reality or maybe this reality we talk of is just the…
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[132] Out Of Your Zone
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sorrows of your plight hit on the periphery of my vision I hope someday they’ll jolt me out of my being connect me to your zone and closer to what you feel you stand beside the pond fearful of the cold water strength evades you like the impermanence of a wave you drown in your inability…
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[131] An Ode to Smartphones
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Your hands curl its existence even though it helps you stay alive as it exudes its electric breath Almost an extension of your mind like the moon an extension of the earth It reflects you in the dark but only by putting a stop to your reflective nature almost announcing its hold on you in…
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[130] Memories of Future/Past
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Nod at my shortcomings and welcome me to your space I know it rains there often I know there’s little room to move But I am ready to live there if you are ready to live at all In the forest of your insecurities that hides the ray of hope Even though it rarely appears…
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[129] Mind As Summer
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My mind is summer now. Languid in its breathing of thoughts and idle in its progression of time. There is a blinding of the heat that is not surprising as it numbs the mind. Time & again it finds a shade of hope only to realise that it was an illusion of my own scorching…