Lesson
Who are you after what you have learnt? Who is your real teacher and what is the lesson?
Revenge
Hate Speech
Disappointment is such a hard teacher but its lessons are so deep.
The High Road
Have you been hurt badly? Betrayed? Fooled? Discriminated against? Violated? Injured? Destroyed, ruined, shattered? So have I. So has every human being on the planet. This doesn’t nullify your pain or mine. It doesn’t make it bigger or worse or more worthy of attention, consideration, empathy, respect. It doesn’t make it…
Completion
Head on your lapOne leg crossed over the otherAnd lying on the sofa,Watching TV I was picking at an old scabA wound that left an ugly markTo remind me of all that I desperately try to forgetA strangely satisfying activity, that. And I was telling youOf things that I should…
55 Words: Turnabout Isn’t Fair Play
She picks a gob of mud and aims carefullySplatch! It spatters down his clean (too clean she thinks) face Then she sits back to sip her drinkBut it makes her choke Arsenic! …she thinks in panic And so the loquacious one is silenced But it wasn’t fair play!! Are her final…
Wish-List
Ideasmith, age 6Dear Santa Claus, Will you bring me a present too? I am not a Christian. But I say prayers in English in school and I know about Jesus Christ and Moses. I read about them in the Bible stories book. When I go home, I pray in Hindi…