on a sunny noon, by the river Parvati, I sit. staring- into the fierce battle that rages within. most days her waters are a gentle calm – a shade of breathtaking blue. but today – she roars a revengeful brown. today – she flows with an anxious fury, of a faltered lover’s frown. crashing, into every rock, as if – all her despairs, she’s set out to drown.
some say it’s just the rain, but beneath her spiteful wrath, I see the pain. the vengeful vexation, of a woman scorn’d.
but to wrestle against, the majestic mountains, was harder done, than thought. she knew- persistence was the virtue, impulse was not. thus, relentlessly, she trickled on. through crevices and cracks, carving out dogged tracks, until there was a brook.
time rolled long, until that’s where the brook always belonged. yet, she refused to cease, as she flowed on, and- on the face of her persistence, even the mountains surrendered, and split for her, to recast herself into a river.
oh, i can’t help but wonder, what if the brook thought? ‘there is no way I can cut through these rocks.’ but she chose not to let adversity, wear her down. seeping through every nook, and corner, through the unyielding peaks, she recast her own ground, until she was – the pious Parvati.
she knows her end is certain: a traceless convergence into oceanic coexistence. is it tragic? I know not. maybe, nor does Parvati, yet, relentlessly, she flows on.
as by the river Parvati, I sit – in awe. on the face of such odds, what if Parvati thought, she cannot?
the other day i got a tattoo and it reminded me of you. i didn’t love you, the calculations of holding hands, the angles for the perfect kiss the equations of likes and dislikes, all of these, goes above my head. i was never good at math anyway. i didn’t like you, the oceans of your freckles the country of your fake accent the earthquakes of your temper, i never understood any of them. geography wasn’t my forte either. so you see, i don’t wish for you to be back. i don’t hate you for leaving me for the other girl. ours was a summer romance, and there i had a fling or two, and a relationship which lasted three springs long. life comes full circle, with its own adjectives: enigmatic and somewhat bemusing. it all started with my search for an escape. it all started with you. i found you, then him. and then that other guy. so when i seem desperate to you or when i call you once, twice, thrice or knock at your door a little too hard, don’t run away or don’t come too close, neither. neither. you’re not the only one i miss you’re not the only guy i kissed. my sleepless nights, my losing appetite, all of these and all of that, is part of my pursuit for happiness. contentment. you’re a part of it. all of them are. but goddamn, i don’t have explanations to this insatiable hunger to this unquenchable thirst, and answers to why my mind keeps going back to you why my body craves for yours or why ever word i utter sounds like your name. i was never good at learning or knowing things.
life comes full cirlce, and didn’t my life start with you?
I am an Assimilated Effort, Of Twenty Bloody Years, Of- Sweat & Blood, Smiles & Toil. And So is my Persona. I Am Not Picture Perfect- Far From It Rather. My Nature, Nothing Close To Noble, My Blood, Far From The Dynastic Blue. But That’s Alright, Because I’m Not Trying- To Compete with You.
Maybe I Hardly Have a Social Standing. If I Count my Friends, I Reckon- It’ll Barely Amount to Two. My Marks Mar My Life, Like Tragedies In Plath Poetics. My Thirst of Companionship, Beats that of Adam’s Ale, Sometimes; As My Anxiety Numbs My Judgements, With Over Thought Instances of Fabricated Truth, And Well, That’s Alright too.
I’m Sure the Lover After Me, Has Helped You Achieve- The Contours Of Pleasure, I Never Could, Or The Friend, I Was Replaced With, Leaves You Shook, In Peels of Laughter, In The Same Humour, That I once, Misunderstood. And That’s Alright, For Change is Always for the Good.
I am Happy for You. Yet, Before I Depart, There is Something I’d Like to Do. Something, Which Bugs Me, Far More Often, Than I’d Like It To. It’s that Frustrating Realisation, Of Never Being Able to Live Upto You.
And For It I’d Like To Offer My Explanation. You See, I Tried. Tried To Live Up To- That Flawless Fantasy, You Picked Straight Out Of a Hollywood Rom-Com, But You Can Only Chisel Me So Far, Before I Am Another Fatal Mistake, None Can Undo; And Like Every Other Piece of Trash, I’m Discarded Too. Well, Do I Look Like An Expendable To You?
But If It Is So, I’m Afraid, That’s Not Alright. For, Maybe, I have Let You Bend- Me, Like One of Your Rubber Toys, You Don’t Play With Anymore. Once Your Favourite Thing, It Lies Untouched, For Far Too Long Now. And I Know You’d Outgrow me Too, Like That; Like Your Rhyme- That Used To Be Your Jam. Heard, You Only Listen to Pop Now, So Here’s a Few Lines Off JB’s Song for You: ‘Cause life’s not easy, I’m not made out of steel; Don’t forget that I’m human, don’t forget that I’m real.’ And I hope It Sticks the Same Way, All Your Favourite Tracks Do. I Hope You Remember, That my Kindness was for Love And Not A Perpetual Virtue. For- I’m Human Too.
I am No Expendable, Easily Fitting In, Into- One of Your Social Moulds, Casted of High School Romantics. I Wonder- If You Really Did Love Me For Me? Am I Even in Trend Anymore, Or Do You Call Me A Bore? Was I Another Failed Loser, You Thought You Could Change? Is My Dressing Sense Too Drab? Are My Insecurities Too Feminist-ically Misplaced? Do The Reasons For My Fears, Sound Too Fake? And The Questions Go On……. Like a Symphony Sans an Ending, Till I Question, If My Entire Existence Was Wrong? Can I Put a Bullet To My Head, Like Another Eminem Song? That We Stan On, Only This Time- It’s Real. But No. The Worth Of My Existence, Is Not Simply To Fit Into A Socially Normed Box. I am No Expendable, And I Refuse To Believe So.
So Go Right On, My Love. Tell The World, Of My Obnoxious Fears, My Skewed Insecurities, And Faux Trauma. But Leave Out My Reasons, Just To Make Sure, The Mockery Is On Point. Go Right Ahead, For- I am not scared of your Social Antics, And Late Night Gossips, Anymore. The World Wasn’t Around When I Fell, And The Ones Who Helped Me Up, Are Far Too Busy With My Dramatics, To Give a Social Damn To Yours.
You know, It Takes Only Four, To Carry The Palled Box, Down The Last Walk of Life, As The Curtains Of Existence are Drawn; Well, I Have Mine Counted, I Hope You Have Yours.
Libëranté. 