Sit, stand, walk, talk and repeat
Lie and sigh
Crouch, just a touch
Please, I beg to stop thinking about a touch
We are officially on a highway to crazy-land

I'm sorry for always putting you second to other people's priorities
It breaks my heart to recall all those nights you cried yourself to sleep.
It wasn't out of desperation for men that you cut yourself…

Just like white privilege, there is male privilege. It's when you think something is not a problem because it does not affect you personally. It's easy to ignore sexism when it works in your favour! Your feminism isn't valid if it only applies to your mothers, sisters, and daughters.

Many of us are hampered in advancing our careers because of our difficulty with self-promotion. Women have unconsciously internalized that self-promotion is shameless and in poor taste, is egocentric, and that indeed it is not “professional” to toot your own horn. However, this is not true.

So much is going on in this world that I feel so sad like when I see innocent people suffering due to terrorism, genocide, racism etc. This is the case where people who have done no wrong are suffering. The major question is why? And nobody is going to answer this why and this is the thing that I am afraid of.

My love poem

Slaughtered at the alter of love for you

I wonder would you ever bleed for me?

Butchered to grant you the feelings of affection, sliced by razors to feed you with adoration

Bled to the point of drainage

Give me your hand,
I'll show you off to the world.
Cheesy enough.
Show me your darkness

The naked sky filled with great embrace,
Sensing as I lay down on the terrace.
The cool breeze hails on my body,
But my heart sings its own melody.

I thought other girls had boys flocking
Everywhere they turned, there was a boy lurking
Of this I could almost swear I was sure
But then I grew and learned it was not so
The other girl down the street was battling drugs…

That failure is the best thing that can happen to you. It's a step back to see the wider perspective. Yeah... what is failure showing you? What is it that you missed? Trust me life is full of second chances, it's not over till it's really, really over.

Shadows I saw,

Dark and intimidating

I clenched my jaw.

I flew from the bed

But, you!
Do you have tears in your eyes yet?
I know you’re there too.
I know you’re just like me…

An exhaustive breakdown within yourself again.

Such a feeling cant be escaped

It catches up to you, it comes around no matter how much you ignore it or avoid it.

She looked at me in distaste as if I was the one who had wronged.
I said,
"Aunty didn't it take you too long?
To realize that my tea and I aren't just the same shade, we're both just as strong."

He only loves me when I look good,
when I got my braids in a ponytail tight;
so he could pull on my hair
as if to say he has tamed me…

"You have been here long, but no change, in any case, it has been negative. You have lost yourself in him, what now?", the soft yet firm voice, echoed louder in my bones than in my inner ears. I thought I could fix him , I was wrong! My own emotions were in a fix. I thought I could heal him. Wrong, my own wounds of past were there glaring with rage in my heart.

To the ones who feel the need to satisfy society: STOP. Look around yourself. Understand that we are different for a reason. If the human race were meant to be 7.7 billion exact bronze statues, then things would have been shaped that way; but we aren’t.

Pain and sorrows are never a joke, no matter how silly the reason behind it.
If you're hurt, you're hurt. You don't need to give any clarification, about why it's affecting you.
Emotions don't require any explanation.

She wears it first as a daughter

When father refuses to enter the maternal ward

On discovering that his first child is female

When father says a girl’s education is a waste

And contributes zilch to her formal training

Tell me to be ‘ladylike’ and sit cross-legged.
I will spread them far apart, do a split,
And dance to the rhythm of your grimaces.

We had had our usual fight. Before it was verbal, but it got physical on this day he came home - on my birthday.

On that day, she had the courage to leave and not look back. It broke my heart, but more than anything else in the world, I valued her peace of mind, her chance at liberation away from the hurricane that is my father. My father made it a note in his mind to remind us every time he came home wasted that we lived in his home and he'd kick us out if he so wished.

When diamonds are covered in mud they're seen as worthless.
It Is only when they are cleansed and in the sun that they shine and gain value.
No-one sees your beauty, your worth till you're in action no longer covered in dirt.

In such a healthy environment, you learn, grow, experience, and gain recognition in unprecedented ways. We take pride to uplift each other in many ways. Rankings and accolades of colleges are temporary, but the values we imbibe like teamwork, leadership, self love, compassion, growth, sensitivity, and empathy are everlasting.