All The World’s A Stage
Are we too in love with the stories to appreciate the realities of life? The stage is a metaphor for our distancing.
Are we too in love with the stories to appreciate the realities of life? The stage is a metaphor for our distancing.
I was used to standing alone. And you came by. And gave me a whole new dimension to togetherness and alone.
Let’s do the dating thing. I’ll say COFFEE? You’ll say Yup.
This boxy is a box. It is not me. When you trap my identity in labels of gender, regional feature, skin colour, this body makes me feel like a prisoner.
I was an English-speaking/writing poet in a sea of people who defined patriotism by their own language. I wrote about my journey of patriotism through language.
All of you homesick for the sickness of love, hating yourself for thinking of an ex, propping yourself on memories of a relationship, wondering if healing will ever be clean. It won’t. It can still be beautiful. Includes a podcast performance.
Real talk is dirty. It’s not that I have forgotten stage fright.
I grew up feeling like my life would follow the same path as other people – work and you shall achieve, be and you shall receive. It baffled me when I was attacked or called entitled for this, when the boys I knew, weren’t. I wrote about this often. I…
Writing was my catharsis, till it became my crutch. A paper plane showed me the way out.
I crossed a birthday last month. Joy is getting harder and harder to know.