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[287] Avoiding The Truth

January 21, 2020by Rahul Gaur3 Comments

I operate in unwritten words The silences the glitter and the bursts The moment before the click The dawn before it tricks night into losing the battle of sight I operate in the ashes of the cigarette that hurt the knuckle of her hands The gentle desperation of solitude that a thud of the door [...]

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[285] empty promises

January 16, 2020January 16, 2020by Rahul Gaur2 Comments

A picture so grey, on a broken paper it remains It conjures up a time that held importance but only in the back of my mind Time turned its wheels and it let it drown away it let it bury under the tip of the iceberg Now all I see is a blinking light in my [...]

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[283] Pendulum of Thoughts

January 12, 2020January 12, 2020by Rahul Gaur2 Comments

I know my illness better than I know myself It’s a cold morning breeze on the last day of summer There is no knock before it enters or any calm before the storm It makes me taste an ecstasy that comes with an understanding that there is a ceiling to every summit and no one [...]

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[282] together we’re apart

January 10, 2020by Rahul Gaur7 Comments

Is it peace or the calm before the storm? My nimble fingers force my eyes close to forget all the frequencies that I find clashing when my focus tries to pull together a semblance of an insight into us Forget all the disturbance in the frequencies between us Forget all the distance that’s increasing by [...]

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[281] New Ending/Beginning

January 3, 2020January 3, 2020by Rahul Gaur7 Comments

I wrote small words before I met her Now I find myself writing them in the grandest of strokes She salvages all my crumpled paper mistakes and glues them back together to reveal an exhibition of my improvement She made me understand that silences don’t necessarily need distraction but sometimes it just needs listening She [...]

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[280] Prelude to an Apocalypse

December 28, 2019December 28, 2019by Rahul GaurLeave a Comment

I’m pretty still till i will myself to sit and until you arrive I stand up unconsciously You’re the morning dawn The creepers of the night kill the silence between us as we discuss in the quiet all the things we said before neatly imprinted in our minds forcefully spoken by our hearts The black [...]

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[277] Understanding Your Silence

December 16, 2019December 16, 2019by Rahul Gaur4 Comments

In the city of depression that sells distraction in the night I catch you staring at the ceiling of a club to disguise the mood you found yourself in tonight The music blares above my crackled call for attention A faint breaking voice breaks through the cacophony You look like you’ve heard the sound of [...]

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[276] Closedown

December 14, 2019December 14, 2019by Rahul Gaur4 Comments

Disintegration of all the patience that i’ve been building for myself It just takes one night to relive all the plight that i’ve been slowly meaning to forget It’s not a physical ailment and people only believe in what they see It’s not an exaggeration but even i’ve never seen what i've believed in Climate [...]

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[275] All Paintings are Self Portraits

December 13, 2019December 13, 2019by Rahul Gaur3 Comments

My free advice to you is falling on my deaf ears I project it all to you in hopes that I get myself to hear a cry for help and a life to live I walk in fear and paralyse my honest voice that screams in vacuum all the dreams unfulfilled I create behaviour over [...]

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[274] Let’s Talk About It

December 2, 2019December 2, 2019by Rahul Gaur6 Comments

I listen to you and go back to a time where I lived a simpler life Where your tales of grandeur were happening in the corner of my eye You describe all the sins to forget Morals that you trampled on Why does it then feel familiar? Am I seeing what I experienced more than [...]