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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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[257] Discriminating Cycles

July 20, 2019July 20, 2019by Rahul Gaur6 Comments

Time is the greatest discriminator For some there’s less For some there’s more For some it’s omnipresent For some it’s invisible There are moments you feel where you’re not the happiest but the most content You realise you don’t know the time then but then the desire to know it arises and your eyes waver [...]

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[254] How To Be Happy: A Reminder

July 5, 2019by Rahul Gaur18 Comments

Happiness is learning the difference between which thoughts to keep and which thoughts to let go It is to live less in imagination and to be more rooted in reality It is to be with someone else’s feelings To be helpful to them even when you’re not able to help yourself

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[249] A New Day

June 24, 2019June 24, 2019by Rahul Gaur20 Comments

Today the world woke up looking a little forgetful The sun didn’t feel as vengeful The newspapers had empty pages The air didn’t suffocate living Was it because we all remembered our dreams today?

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[155] A Waking Dream

May 27, 2018by Rahul Gaur6 Comments

I erode my being to get out of my mind The physical sensation of emptiness coupled with the confirmation of being alive the paradox of which is enough to take up all the space in my mind as what bothered me is without me now All I care about is this small little world where [...]

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[154] Voiceless Rain

May 26, 2018May 26, 2018by Rahul Gaur7 Comments

Decorate your room for my memories to echo less Your lingering perfume wanes in intensity as I get undressed Tormenting clouds call me out to watch them perform a show for us tonight A show we're both an audience of separated by space and time The show gets over and I remember that my umbrella [...]

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[152] The Purpose of Everything and Nothing

May 22, 2018by Rahul Gaur6 Comments

An original thought is an accident and an invention is inspired After all, we live in another man's idea of a mind The creation by you is laborious like making a sculpture from a stone It's not the movie version of progress where it seems entertaining in a montage It's a slow burning sensation of routine [...]

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[151] Keep Me Where The Light Is

May 19, 2018May 19, 2018by Rahul Gaur2 Comments

I still remember your gestures in my dream The way your self-consciousness makes you more elegant than hideous, like you think The way your eyes held the calm of the mountains and somehow I knew the reason was me That was when fear gripped me for pain knows me way too well as it circles [...]

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[149] The Future Waits For None

May 15, 2018by Rahul Gaur11 Comments

As I sit here, a realisation dawns on me. The world nods in confirmation of my fear that it doesn't really require me as it runs without me unabashedly. This doesn't come as a surprise at all but it comes like that strong gust of wind that uproots even the most rooted grass from the [...]

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[147] Falling Stars

May 13, 2018May 13, 2018by Rahul Gaur16 Comments

Yesterday feels like tomorrow when you're stuck in a routine Sleeping feels like waking and dreaming feels like living Your life is muddled up in a series of activities meant to soothe you into a slumber of having no sensations finally They say love helps you find your home or the idea of it because you still [...]