Free Verse
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SHADOWS OF CONTINUANCE
So what will you say of Mrs Das down the street Who contracted a cancerous tumour on her throat And passed away last month You tell me to eat my greens, mum I surmise that Mrs Das might not have had a lot of them But is it fair for someone to lose their life Continue reading
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OLD WORLD, NEW WORLD
They say it’s pouring cats and dogs But somehow the rain has evaded us I’ve seen you in college and asked around And here at the cafeteria forecourt Everybody seems to know you It feels like you’ve seen me But that’s just what I think We exchange glances And you wonder who I am You’ve Continue reading
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SOMETIMES I CRY
When the day is over, And the sun sets I come out of hiding It is dark around, Darker than the black I wear But dark is what I seek I have forgotten joy Learnt to embrace hatred If I can’t, you can’t too Sometimes I cry Overburdened by my failings As son, friend and Continue reading
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YOU OF ME
When you finally let the dust settle Over our stark, barren past I hope you breathe love again When gloomy rivers tell you tales And the night sky finally wakes up I hope it reminds you of me When you pull on your fine sweater To shelter from the intolerant cold I hope you find Continue reading
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DESOLATION
I see your face, bothered and lost There’s a paper map between your eyebrows And the wind is blowing everywhere else You cling on to the pain dearly As if you would be nothing without it I recognise your suffering instantly We’ve been down this road before It’s as if I’m the only one who Continue reading
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HOME THIS CHRISTMAS
I can see the dimming lights aglow From afar as I trod up the steps to our door, I ring the bell but I hope I haven’t woken you up You open the door and stand there aghast Looking at my dishevelled state You’ve never seen me unkempt and I remember How much you hated Continue reading
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VERDICT
I will confess to you Because you showed me the picture Of the man who I had come to become And the way you turned it over upside down Showed a classic case of comic timing And then I thought of that old man Who had by now given up the struggle With shadows now Continue reading
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REMNANTS
Love, longing, desire No longer mere expressions Just prisons that no one escapes Unseen hands that shaped our love It is not a blameless world We are building cages for us Slowly, steadily, one brick at a time Watching the Sun disappear into A horizon that we used to call our own But who are Continue reading
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LOVE WAS ENOUGH
Ego, Our love Longing, desire Four blank emotions We are no longer one now We are just two non-entities Two worlds apart, trying to forget All those memories and all those days Seems easier said than done, but trusting fate We took a step forward to be pulled apart once again. We are now looking Continue reading
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THE DEATH OF SANTA CLAUS
He’s been bed-ridden for a week, But he doesn’t show his pain, Hiding doesn’t come easy, The man in the red suit has never had it harder, His kids down at the North Pole Post Office Have often told him to go easy but, The chest pains he’s had do not go away quickly And Continue reading
Mohul is a national-level cricketer, poet, sports journalist, travel writer and essayist from Hyderabad, India.
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