The institution of marriage does not hold sanctity any more.
His tone scoffed but his voice was gentle
Reminding her to anticipate reality and not be hurt by it
Yet, she persisted,
I hold it sacred, even if no one else does
And till then,
It won’t be relegated to the graveyard of relic rituals.
Chimichangas bring together two very different appetites.
I had a chance to get this off my chest last year. I’m so grateful for the stage giving me a chance to voice things that had been eating away my insides for too long. I’ve been silenced by well-meaning friends and others who are just inconvenienced by anything other…
Last week someone asked me, “Are you an impulsive person?” I pulled from my stock of well-thought-out answers (there, doesn’t that already tell you what it is?) and replied that I made considered decisions, which included giving impulse some consideration. This morning I thought about impulse. I thought of the…
You reached out your heart to me. What I found, tied me to you. What we are, is a kite.
Having the last word means having to navigate some bizarre conversations.
I’ve started to figure that Performance Poetry or Spoken Word does not have to conform to specific rules. I’m choosing to interpret the form as an oral sharing of an idea, an emotion or a story. This could rhyme or not, it could involve gestures or not, could include voice…
Or maybe she was one of those who believed that it takes a lifetime to make but just a moment of madness to break. But once made nothing could be more beautiful.
Wiseling/Revealed,
Am waitin’ since I have forgotten and for so long that by now,the wait is like a spell by a bad witch’s cauldron!
As someone wise once said.. Everything comes to He who Waits.
(thanks Revealed)
@ Ricercer: Maybe she was stubborn or just plain stupid.
@ Shreyasi: Or perhaps that was the case.
Ricercer,
She may have persisted because it is not easy to build an institution with all of one’s sweat, blood and soul and then just throw it away like yesterday’s newspaper!
Idea,
I felt he is looking at the easy way out while she holds herself dear.
But then at times in this world, it is the easy-runners who win.
pretty
why did she persist?