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[352] A Beautiful Smile

September 28, 2020by Rahul Gaur11 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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[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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[332] Futile Chase of A Sunrise

July 20, 2020by Rahul Gaur17 Comments

Things didn’t make sense for her⁣⁣ like a gnawing feeling inside her⁣⁣ to open a bookstore in the desert⁣,⁣ the pinnacle of solitude⁣⁣ Like we squandered an opportunity⁣⁣ by not having books in the middle of it⁣⁣ Who could have thought of this ⁣⁣ but her ⁣ ⁣⁣ The one who wakes up when the [...]

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[326] Before I’m Gone

June 28, 2020by Rahul Gaur14 Comments

Look closely Usually, I say nothing meaningful at all What I say in what I write should be of no consequence to you but you can choose to listen to the things unsaid Listen to where your mind takes you when you read about my lonely night Look around you and see the world change [...]

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[320] War of Life

June 16, 2020by Rahul Gaur7 Comments

Preaching honesty in vain Everyone has already made up their minds Shapeless phantoms impersonate bankrupt souls The will to look ahead corrupts the need to look inside Imagination summons for meaning in the form of a story As I write a letter to no one at all It reaches on the shore of an apocalyptic [...]

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[318] Seeing Past Each Other

June 9, 2020by Rahul Gaur21 Comments

Ashes descend on a snowy field The explosion of the sun is underway The cold heat stings in an unusual rhythm The cursed air howls for some breeze Daydreaming doom has effects on your emotional internal life You feel before you imagine You imagine before you live Preparation for the worst An escape from the [...]

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[317] Autumn Apocalypse

June 5, 2020June 5, 2020by Rahul Gaur18 Comments

My mind fills up like a balloon Just a pin drop away to burst The rebellion doesn’t bloom when the ruckus is confined inside Wilting away like roses for the dead The silence of a graveyard is the acceptance of death It’s the will to not live when the stars get upset Where do you [...]

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[316] Imminent Amnesia

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020by Rahul Gaur12 Comments

Keeping out the sun Shadows are not welcomed here on the dark side of the moon Befriend nothingness and call upon the void Delirious normalcy a luminous explosion in the wild Woke up in a liminal space with a tired set of eyes I woke up to a sleepy world Supernova of a flower child

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[311] Getting What I Seek

May 21, 2020by Rahul Gaur16 Comments

Needless destiny and a need for intervals To pause feeling this way cracks about to split open I lie awake tired unable to sleep A worthless life at the hook of every sentence and an unfulfilled potential waiting beyond every full stop.

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[307] To New Beginnings

April 28, 2020by Rahul Gaur23 Comments

I am beginningless quite like the universe in which we reside I can’t recall my first word I can’t remember my first walk I can’t remember my first cry unless it’s in the form of my parent's memory of it It’s all inference with no perceptive truth like we reminisce about the universe to familiarise [...]