Monday, November 25, 2013

just

Dear you,
My heart has been sad and I turn to you again. And it feels like I'm turning to you while running away from you.
P

coward

i am not brave. so i do myself the favour of hiding.
sometimes in bathrooms. in closets. sometimes, behind my hair.
but mostly behind words


Wednesday, November 20, 2013

breakfast

let's wake up to simple things-
like warm coffee
freshly baked bread
and sunshine


Friday, November 15, 2013

a quantum of you

nights coiled in
to hold us together
in words
even as the world flung us apart

words-
i can no more tell
when mine become yours
and yours become mine

snatches of you

there are afternoons
when toes curl
fingers twirl



and the day fills with longing
as i drink you down
like raindrops
caught in the tiny craters
of my palm


trance

it's so easy to lie here
stare at a fragment of the sky
and dream about your eyes

Friday, November 8, 2013

take me away

so i don't have to talk to anyone anymore. am tired of yap-yapping. am tired of having so many people to ask questions to and say things to. let me just bury my head in silence.

Zuberi and I

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