We Await the Rains

The lush of heat and the lack of warmth That one finds; Perhaps it’s in the air Which has fostered such despise; Perhaps it’s that reprise, That so well fairs And festers in the lost and volatile minds. We await…

Acceptance’s Complexity

It’s there: In the noise that we like to grieve, And in the silence we cope with their audacity; And in the hushed tones we express what we truly believe, Lies the field of acceptance’s complexity; It’s there. It’s there:…

On Humans and their Stories

I can trade with you in good faith a dozen bananas for thirty five rupees, in the order of twenty, ten, and five rupees notes; the same deal wouldn’t go in as good faith with, say, a chimpanzee. By the…

Amicus- III

The steel door opened behind Amicus, making a prolonged metallic screeching noise. He had been inside the interrogation room for half an hour’s time now, and he had stopped wondering about whether or not Themis, Apollo, and Hades, who were…

Amicus-II

“A hedge fund manager, then? Which particularly funds energy companies?”, the man, had shown more curiosity towards Amicus than perhaps even his parents after a night out with associates (that was what he liked to call his friends), asked, partially…

Amicus-I

The exceptionally cold January night, couldn’t keep Amicus from perspiring wet, despite him not wearing anything exceptionally warm, mixing his bodily fluids with the dew from the damp weather outside. Wearing anything exceptionally warm had gone down his priority list,…

The Demons that Lie Within

They haunt you in your sleeps, They stalk you while you are awake. They console you when you weep, They pull you back into the darkness, When your ego undertakes. Behold yourself, and amalgamate your flaws, As the demons crawl…

Where was God then?

In the beginning, They say, God created the universe; In times of reckoning, To the former idea in reverse, Didn’t the universe and it’s people create God? They say that God is almighty,All powerful and all good;So when humans were…

On Exclusivity in Friendship

Certain things are for certain people. Privileges are for rich people, difficulties are for poor people, love is for blind people (metaphorically in the case of teenagers with raging hormones), politics are for influential people, and the list goes on,…

On Writing and Studying

Many people I have met often have this misconception that if a student still in school is also a published writer, they most definitely are not good at studying, and by studying, specifically what schools teach. This may indirectly mean…